by Ricarda Vidal and Madeleine Campbell Two years ago, in spring and summer 2022, we (Madeleine and Ricarda) jointly translated Kurt Schwitters’ poem “An Anna Blume” (1919) into a multimodal work. We made collages of paper, cardboard, wood, drawing, fat, sound, photography, film, stop-motion animation… and used the tools offered by digitality to create theContinue reading “Revisiting Anna Blume”
Category Archives: ludic translation
The Power and Process of Ludic Translation: a real-life experiment
by Emily Mercer As a translation student at university, “ludic translation” was a foreign concept to me. I had viewed translation as a primarily linear process resulting in a written work, a finished product. It was only when my tutor introduced me to Lee’s revolutionary ludification approach (see Translation as Experimentalism, 2022*), that I beganContinue reading “The Power and Process of Ludic Translation: a real-life experiment”
How to translate the unknown
by Harriet Carter and Ricarda Vidal On a bright and very windy morning on 9th June 2022, we were honoured to lead a workshop at the What’s the Matter in Translation? (Traduction et Matérialité) conference in Montpellier at the Université Paul Valéry. Our workshop titled ‘How to translate the unknown’ was hosted by the MaisonContinue reading “How to translate the unknown”
Translating the Asemic
by Ricarda Vidal and Harriet Carter This blog further continues the conversation about asemic writing, drawing and translation, which we started in the summer and continued in early December. On 25th November 2021, we returned to Ledbury’s Barrett Browning Institute (home to the Ledbury Poetry Festival) to conduct the second part of our workshop onContinue reading “Translating the Asemic”
Asemic Writing and Drawing
Workshop 1: exploring uncertainty in the company of artists, poets, makers by Ricarda Vidal and Harriet Carter This blog continues the conversation about asemic writing, drawing and translation, which we started in the summer. On 4th November 2021 we travelled to Ledbury to conduct a workshop exploring asemic writing through drawing in the Barrett BrowningContinue reading “Asemic Writing and Drawing”
Some speculations on asemic writing and the productive embrace of uncertainty
by Ricarda Vidal and Harriet Carter, 28 July 2021 Ricarda: Last year, I read Peter Schwenger’s excellent Asemic: The Art of Writing. The book brought together a wide range of artists who explore writing without language in their work. Cy Twombly (who Schwenger sees as one of the “ancestors” and whose Letter of Resignation seriesContinue reading “Some speculations on asemic writing and the productive embrace of uncertainty”
Experiential Translation 