BTTI, Experimental Humanities, German, Japanese, L&L, and Literature Presents

"Yoko Tawada's Traveling Voices": A Screening and Conversation with Son HyeJeong

Tawada Yōko is very well-known in the US, especially thanks to the translation in English of The Emissary, which received in 2018 the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Less renowned are, however, her poetry and performances playing with language, media and voices, which Son has been following around the world for the past ten years. The teaser gives a taste of them, but does not encompass their originality, nor the way they ask their audience to interrogate their sense of identity, and their pre-established conceptions of how cultural and language canons operate. Tawada's work is translingual (shifting between her two main languages, Japanese and German, and an expanding repertoire of others) and interstitial, thriving in the no man's lands between and beyond national borders -- and different forms of media production. Her games with audio and video, word and gesture, human and non-human entities (including, at times, generative AI) all converge towards one goal: to give a voice to what and who is often unvoiced.

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Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Preston Theater

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