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Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering This work focuses on the intersection between verbal translation and psychic mediumship. I organized an artist talk by Jun Yang (b.1975 China/Austria) at Tokyo University of the Arts, with Noriko Kobayashi as the interpreter, on November 17, 2011. I commissioned Hikaru Fujii to shoot only Kobayashi, not Yang, with his video camera, throughout the talk. The subtitles in the resultant film is re-translation by Yu Araki, based only on the Japanese translation by Kobayashi. I chose Jun Yang because his work, in my view, explores uncertainty of self in translation, which reflects the very structure of this piece itself. I am a translator myself, and I met Jun Yang in 2010, when I translated the English dialogue of his film piece "A Short Story on Forgetting and Remembering" into Japanese subtitles. Thinking back now, that was the very beginning of this project - that was when I found the act of translation similar to that of ghost-writing. << back to works |
