Ignore the Gap? Ignore the Gap?

Ruth Pelzer

How may translation theories elucidate How may translation theories elucidate intermediality intermediality

in contemporary works of art? in contemporary works of art?

Jessica Stockholder Of Standing Float Roots In Thin Air, 2006

Installation: PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Long Island City, New York

Installation view of Francesc Ruiz, Newsstand, 2010

Eric Avery, Print Back, 2009

‘as a poetic, hermeneutic, political and experiential mode’ (Bal p 9).

Jakobson speaks of the ‘inter-semiotic’ possibility of translation which denotes ‘transformations and intersections … between any different sign systems’ (quoted in Schober, 2010, p166)

translation

translation

‘Most obtrusively presented is the sense of translation as change in form, condition, appearance, or substance, translation as

transformation, as transmutation ….’ (Sallis in Baker P31/32).

intermediality

refers to ‘relations between media, to medial interactions and interferences’can be applied ‘to any phenomenon involving more than one medium’ and ‘thus to any phenomenon … that takes place between media’. ‘Accordingly, the crossing of media borders has been defined as a founding category of intermediality’ (Rajewsky, 2010, in Elleström, p 51/52).

intermediality

intermediality

Anton Henning at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Summer 2011

Rajewsky’s three intermedial categories

medial transposition media combination

intermedial references

Gerhard Richter, Reader, 1994, oil on linen, 72 x 101 cm

intermediality

Anna BarriballUntitled II, 2008Ink on Paper239 x 66 x 22 cm

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Christiane Baumgartner

Regina Silveira

Christiane BaumgartnerChristiane Baumgartner

Christiane BaumgartnerKleines Seestück I, 2011

Woodcut on Shiragiku Japanese paperPaper 62.0 x 92.0 cm, Image 47.0 x 80.0 cm

Deutscher Wald, 2007. Woodcut on Kozo paper, 28 x 35 inches

Christiane Baumgartner

Lisbon, 2001, woodcut, 98 x 128 cm

Lisbon (2001), woodcut, 98 x 128 cm each.

Regina Silveira, Rerum Naturae with Mundus Admirabilis, 2010glazed porcelain, embroidered linen, adhesive vinyl, wood and steel table.variable dimensionsMoore College of Art and Science, Philagrafika, Philadelphia, USA

Regina Silveira Mundus Admirabilis, 2008-10Plotter-cut and digitally printed vinyl, Installation View at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia as part of Philagrafika