The Art of Translation

Monday 13 April, 1pm-5pm, White Box Gallery, BLOC (Arts One), with lunch

Art as Translation (1pm-2.15pm)

Independent researcher and artist Hildegard E. Keller will present her three works with and about Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): the novel Was wir scheinen (‘What We Seem’, 2021), which features Arendt as the protagonist, the picture-book Die weisen Tiere (‘The Wise Animals’, 2025), with previously unpublished text by Hannah Arendt and illustrations by Hildegard E. Keller, and a radio feature for Swiss radio broadcast in 2022.

An Artelier (2.30pm-3.45pm)

Art historian Dr Émilie Oléron Evans will lead us in a workshop where we will consider how artists explore the idea of translation, how viewers are involved in the process of translation, and how we, given our own position, communicate on select artworks.

Small Forms: from Linguistics to Translation (4pm-5pm)

Torsten Leuschner (Professor of German Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium, and Visiting Reader at QMUL) will discuss his research on small forms such as proverbs, commercial and political slogans, etc. from a crosslinguistic point of view. Such micro-texts are often formulaic or grammatically unusual, particularly in English, raising challenges for translation even between closely related languages. Comments from the audience on small forms in any languages they are familiar with are welcome.

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