The Contemporary Journal is the digital strand of the Public Programmes and Research department at Nottingham Contemporary, which is responsible for the journal content.
2018
On Translations
'On Translations' explores the cultural and political contradictions that arise in processes of translation - in language and beyond. These questions derive from an understanding that translation encompasses processes of erasure in colonial language and epistemologies. At the same time, it offers a liminal space marked by mistranslation, confusion, and hesitance. 'On Translations' aims to explore the potential capacities of translation to be a 'site of inhabitation' rather than a transitional space between the original and the translated text.