A photo of a poem by Bernadette Mayer, “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet,” courtesy Ayano Elson.
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This program will take place virtually, on Zoom.
2022 Artist-in-Residence Ayano Elson looks at the writing experiments of the late Bernadette Mayer to discuss ways of translating text into improvisational performance scores.
As a child growing up interpreting English for her mother—and as a dancer transmuting concepts into movement—Ayano has worked as a translator her whole life. In translation, trust and treachery coexist; sharing may become subterfuge. In her current choreographic and performance practice, Ayano is asking the following questions: what constitutes a translated artifact? What are a translator’s responsibilities? How do we make the unlike like? How do we weigh aesthetic, ethical, and political priorities? What do we gain and lose? What do we leave behind?
Performance Philosophy Reading Group is a regular reading group that invites artists and thinkers to facilitate discussion on a text or topic, in whatever way feels most productive.
This program will have auto-generated captioning on Zoom.