Say Translation is Art Rozalie Hirs photography and visual art

photography and visual art

where dissimilar organisms live productively together

personal narrative

at last with thy softer light/That takes the bite from winter weather/And weaves the random cloth of life together/And drives away the long black night

Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian)

Say Translation is Art Rozalie Hirs photography and visual artSawako Nakayasu Say Translation Is Art is a treatise on literary translation that exceeds the bounds of conventional definitions of such, advocating for a wider embrace of translation as both action and as art. In the ever expansive margins of dominant literary culture, translation links up with performance, repetition, failure, process, collaboration, feminism, polyphony, conversation, deviance, punk, and improvisation. Sawako Nakayasu is an artist