Lecture by Professor Martin Revermann: Distance, translation, performance
Wednesday, April 20, 7–8pm in Rm 130, Kaneff Centre
Translation is usually seen as a bridge of sorts, a connector that links a source text (and with it, a source culture) to a target text and target culture. In this talk, Revermann will explore how translation also, and at the same time, does the exact opposite by creating distance, thereby making space for artifacts to live and breathe lives of their own. Performance will emerge as a chief catalyst to bring about this kind of ‘distance in translation’. Case studies will be drawn from ancient Greek material culture (theatre-related vase paintings) and 20th century theatre (especially Beckett).

Presented in the context of the exhibition the distance between nowhere and now here curated by Charlotte Lalou Rousseau on view at the Blackwood Gallery from April 20 - May 22, 2016.

Screening and Q&A Performance
Saturday, April 30, 3–5pm
Room 222, Innis College, University of Toronto
2 Sussex Avenue
The screening of Stine Marie Jacobsen's feature length film, Mann beißt Hund (2015) will be followed by discussion. FREE, all welcome. Seating is limited, please arrive on time.

Curator's tour and Artist talk performance
Sunday, May 1, 1:15pm
The curator will give a tour of the exhibition and translate Emma Waltraud Howes’ artist talk.
presented in conjunction with:
FREE Contemporary Art Bus Tour
Sunday, May 1, 12–5pm
The tour starts at Koffler Centre of the Arts at Artscape Youngplace (180 Shaw Street) at 12pm and then departs for Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York University, and Doris McCarthy Gallery, returning to Shaw Street at 5pm. Seating is limited.