Summer 2024 Archives

/(séro)TROPICAL(e) CHAPITRE II: Cicatrices…/

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with French, Visual Art

by Gian Cruz Gian Cruz (b. 1987, Manila, Philippines), is a multidisciplinary Filipino artist whose artistic practice is heavily rooted in photography, architecture and diasporic studies of Southeast Asian migrant communities in Europe integrated with his institutional work and background …

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PORTALS: A LEXICON OF A FANTASTICAL PHILIPPINE REVERIE

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with Filipino, French, Visual Art

A visual art series by Gian Cruz and Gisela Marcelang CHAPTER XVI; PORTAL N°16 A Portrait That Took Over a Decade: My Late Grandmother Aurora and the Centenary Eucalyptus Tree Through Which She Communicates with Me, Manila, Philippines – Barcelona, …

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Mexico | USA

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with Border, Video Essay, Visual Art

by Eliseo Ortiz Eliseo Ortiz is a media artist working in the interstices between Mexico and the United States. Ortiz holds an M.F.A. in Media Arts Production from SUNY-Buffalo and a Ph.D. in Emergent Technologies and Media Arts Practices from …

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Excerpts From WIDE SCREEN

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with Spanish

Original by Víctor Cabrera Translated, from the Spanish, by James Richie from "William Blake Arrives in the Violent Station" Groundwork for the metaphysics of Westerns: Spectral travelers populate the screen like waking the worst part of a nightmare Cowboys who …

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Scattered Spectra

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with Arabic

Original by Ahmed Abu Hazem Translated, from the Arabic, by Essam M. Al-Jassim “Oh Allah, drown me in your divine love so that nothing will distract me from you.” Rabi’a al-ʻAdawiyya* Penetrating obscurity consumes the universe. He shatters into infinitesimal …

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[XVII] from Sonnets to Orpheus

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with German

Original by Rainer Maria Rilke Adapted, after the German, by Nico Peck The song spire spins itself in time into a branch we climb. Entangled limbs urge rage and release, hunted and slit open, spread earth-bound downtrodden clambered undermost tongue …

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Vein

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with Turkish

Original by Elif Sofya Translated, from the Turkish, by Jeffrey Kahrs and Mete Özel I found a language by scraping my skin a bitter tree grew out of it prepared, steamed, speeding I crushed that language I pulled it and …

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Two Poems

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with Italian

Original by Antonia Pozzi Translated, from the Italian, by Amy Newman Lamp Little lantern, maybe you were inside a child’s tomb near the earthenware toy and the jars holding tiny seeds — or maybe a late-night boatman carried you to …

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traduttore, traditore

Posted in Summer 2024 Tagged with Albanian, Autotranslation, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Farsi, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, Urdu

An original work by Deniz Ibrahimzade, with Adriana Petkova, Melisa Gjoci, Ana Cardenas, Natalie Anashkin, Elnur Ibrahimzade, Irada Ibrahimzade, Ria Raj, Sara Moghimi [ FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA / PALESTINE WILL BE FREE / FROM PALESTINE TO MEXICO …

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Nile Like Holy Water