ON PERFORMING PHILOSOPHY THROUGH TRANSLATION

Madeleine Campbell; Ricarda Vidal

doi:10.21747/21844585/tm5_1a1

ON PERFORMING PHILOSOPHY THROUGH TRANSLATION

Madeleine Campbell, Ricarda Vidal

Culture, Media & Creative Industries

King's College London

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Abstract

This article proposes a ‘translation philosophy’ commensurate with the immanence of praxis in the authors’ collaborative endeavour to create a Gesamttranslation (a total work of translation) of Kurt Schwitters’ seminal poem “An Anna Blume” (1919, 1922 ff). Through arts-informed and transformational practices of translation and retranslation, the authors explore their own multimodal translations of the poem and those of others as concrete examples of translating with/through art. Placing this work within the context of Anne Carson’s translations of Antigone and Caroline Bergvall’s Via, they focus on the affinity of the practice of translation with the practice of performance. They also examine parallels and synergies between translation, performance philosophy and art practice in a wider sense, exploring common interests such as representation, appropriation, originality and the role of play and creativity. The article is presented as a multimodal document whereby words and images, video files, poetry and prose come together to advance the argument.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9-28
Number of pages	20
Journal	Translation Matters
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21747/21844585/tm5_1a1
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2023

Keywords

Arts-Informed Research
Experiential Translation
Intersemiotic Translation
Performance Philosophy
Translation Philosophy

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