Mar 11, 2021

Online Book Launch: »Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices – A Shared Vocabulary«

Date: Mar 11, 2021, 14:00 Uhr

Location: Online

Info:

To participate in the event via Zoom and join the discussion, advance reservation is required. Please register at: register@akademie-solitude.de

There is a limited number of participants.

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Design: Beton, Wien

The publication  Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices is published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the international and transdisciplinary artist residency Akademie Schloss Solitude. The publication brings together 22 contributions by authors from the international network of Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Untranslatable proposes a new vocabulary of terms that remain untranslated in their original language. These are words that convey cultural practices, attitudes and value systems and are explained from their respective language and word canon. Terms are presented that broaden perspectives, facilitate new perspectives, and thus enrich collective thinking as a global community. The Shared Vocabulary presents an expanded cultural and etymological understanding of the world and our cultural actions. This publication makes global knowledge systems visible and promotes the accessibility of valuable everyday practices.

For this purpose, this anthology brings together texts by former fellows of the Akademie, authors, thinkers, scientists, journalists, poets, and visual artists who are connected to cultural practices in different ways. Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices addresses pressing questions with which both artists and scientists alike are confronted: Which value systems are necessary to sustain our living conditions on this planet? What sort of collective wisdom and cultural practices can we learn from as a society? And how can we translate this knowledge into sustainable and peaceful action for a global community?

With contributions by: Faduma Abukar, Patrizia Bach & Regina Dürig, Mica Cabildo, Kübra Gümüşay, Vinicius Jatobá, Simar Preet Kaur, Giuliana Kiersz, Dong Li, Edith Lázár, Alexander Manuiloff, Viktoria Morasch, Abukar Mursal, Haneen Naamneh, Enos Nyamor, Prasanna Oommen, Raqs Media Collective, Vipul Rikhi, Laura Romano, Cássio Diniz Santiago, Nishant Shah, Alkistis Thomidou, Natasha Tontey, Jérôme Toussaint, Wojtek Ziemilski

Elke aus dem Moore (Akademie Schloss Solitude) and Chiara Figone (Archive Books) will welcome you to the book launch and the authors Vinicius Jatobá, Giuliana Kiersz, Viktoria Morasch, Haneen Naamneh, Vipul Rikhi, Natasha Tontey and Wojtek Ziemilski will read from their texts.

The book is published by Archive Books in cooperation with Edition Solitude and with the kind support of Wüstenrot Stiftung

Further information about the book.

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