The rationale of the conference is to explore how the different arts translate across disciplines and to establish exchanges that will allow arts disciplines to engage with contemporary debates and concerns in a non-hierarchical way.

17 Thursday

10:00 – 11:45 : 5 papers 15 min each, 5 min Q and A

Translating exhibitions – Chair Dr. Nicola Foster with Sylvia Schlegel and Deborah Goatly-Birch

• On Translations – a Curatorial Project on confusion and hesitation Carolina Rito, Coventry University

• Museum and Novel in dialogue: Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence Maja Hill, Solent University

• Layers of translation and transaction between book and exhibition: W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and ‘Lines of Sight: Sebald’s East Anglia’ at Norwich Castle Museum Pat Hurrell, University of Suffolk

5 min break

• Mindful Circulations: Rethinking Curatorial Practice with Benjamin, LeGuin and Césaire Kerstin Winking, Leiden University, Netherlands

• Restaging as Translation: Reconstructing Palle Nielsen’s ‘The Model- A Model for Qualitative Society’ (1968) Dudley, Laura E., University of Leicester & Derby Museums

11:45 to 12:15 Discussion

14:00 to 15:20 4 papers 15 min each, 5 min Q and A

Translating across literature poetry and art – Chair Dr. Matthew Bowman with Michelle Pocok

• A Completed Portrait of Abstract Expressionist Film: An Adaptation of a Poem By Gertrude Stein Carl Schmitz, Independent art historian

• Lines of transition: Translation in the work of Cy Twombly Nadine Henrich, Freie Universität Berlin

• Lygia Clark’s Caminhando: Painting, sculpture and participation through the lens of poetry Andrew Chesher, Chelsea College of Arts, London

• Mario Giacomelli translator Irene Caravita, Independent Art Historian

15:20 to 15: 40 Discussion

15:45 to 16:15 2 papers max 10 min, 5min Q and A

Translation as art practice – Chair Dr. Sebastian Hegarty with India Lawton

• “READING… entre les lignes” Ingrid Cogne, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

• CatChat: A Translational Enterprise of an Inter-Species Poetic Exchange at a Fictitious Museum Michal B. Ron independent art historian, Hannah Bruckmüller independent art historian, Noa Ginzburg artist

Concluding notes Nicola Foster

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