Assembly | Translation as Hospitality

About

We will gather together to activate the reading room in our current exhibition Translation as Hospitality, this will include the sharing of poetry, notes and texts not yet translated, or hard to find. Collectively, the aim is to further explore the potential for translation to act as a site of hospitality and inclusion. We convene with food, warm drinks and nourishing conversation.

Hamedine Kane, a Senegalese and Mauritanian artist and director, lives and works between Brussels and Dakar. Through his practice, Kane frequents borders, not as signs and factors of impossibility, but as places of passage and transformation, as a central element in the conception of an itinerant identity. After ten years of exile in Europe, his practice now focuses on themes of memory and heritage. In his work, past and future are intertwined, transgressing and irrigating the boundaries of space and time.

Stéphane V. Bottéro is an artist working at the intersection of social practice, installation, writing, gardening and cooking. He is interested in the entanglements of community, materiality, body and place. Based on site-specific research and durational interventions, his practice explores pedagogies of repairing.

The School of Mutants is a collaborative platform for art and research initiated in 2018 in Dakar, Senegal. Working across geographies and engaging with socio-cultural, ecological, and aesthetic mutations of the real, the collective aims to mobilize spaces for the production, transmission, and pluralization of knowledge in non-hierarchical ways. Departing from research into the educational infrastructures and pedagogical utopias that emerged in post-independence Senegal and West Africa, the collective reflects on the legacies of African futurism, Non-Aligned Movement and Southern solidarities.

Book and more information: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/translation-as-hospitality-3/