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Translating marginality into art: A multimodal approach
Lorena Carbonara
- Pagine: 89-104
- Prezzo: 7,00 €
- Rivista: InVerbis
- Fascicolo: 1/2018 – InVerbis
- DOI: 10.7368/91222
In breve
In the contemporary scenario of mass migration across the Mediterranean, translation is increasingly connected with the image of hospitality, both as a practice and metaphor. Using the tools offered by the paradigm of Multimodality, this essay explores the way in which recent migrants’ counter- narratives in the visual arts are symbolically “translating the margin” and are giving voice to lost narratives. German photographer Kevin McElvaney’s 2015 Project#RefugeesCamera and Ethiopian director Dagmawi Yimer’s 2014 video-art Asmat/Names will be analysed, both linguistically and visually, as attempts to achieve a more ontological narrative. Both art works tried to bring the experience of migration closer to people’s everyday lives by giving a voice to those who usually go unheard and by eliciting an emotional response.
In the contemporary scenario of mass migration across the Mediterranean, translation is increasingly connected with the image of hospitality, both as a practice and metaphor. Using the tools offered by the paradigm of Multimodality, this essay explores the way in which recent migrants’ counter- narratives [...]
Translating marginality into art: A multimodal approach
Lorena Carbonara
- Pagine: 89-104
- Prezzo: 7,00 €
- DOI: 10.7368/91222
In breve
In the contemporary scenario of mass migration across the Mediterranean, translation is increasingly connected with the image of hospitality, both as a practice and metaphor. Using the tools offered by the paradigm of Multimodality, this essay explores the way in which recent migrants’ counter- narratives in the visual arts are symbolically “translating the margin” and are giving voice to lost narratives. German photographer Kevin McElvaney’s 2015 Project#RefugeesCamera and Ethiopian director Dagmawi Yimer’s 2014 video-art Asmat/Names will be analysed, both linguistically and visually, as attempts to achieve a more ontological narrative. Both art works tried to bring the experience of migration closer to people’s everyday lives by giving a voice to those who usually go unheard and by eliciting an emotional response.
In the contemporary scenario of mass migration across the Mediterranean, translation is increasingly connected with the image of hospitality, both as a practice and metaphor. Using the tools offered by the paradigm of Multimodality, this essay explores the way in which recent migrants’ counter- narratives [...]