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Chapter 1 - Medieval Soundings, Modern Movements

Histories and Futures of Translation and Performance in Caroline Bergvall’s Drift

from Part I - Translation as Medium and Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2023

By
Joshua Davies
Edited by
Avishek Ganguly  and
Kélina Gotman
Avishek Ganguly
Affiliation:
Rhode Island School of Design
Kélina Gotman
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

Caroline Bergvall’s Drift was produced as text, performance and gallery installation between 2012 and 2014. An Old English poem that survives in a single manuscript dated to around the year 1000, ‘The Seafarer’, is one of the beginnings of the project. Drift features translations and rewritings of ‘The Seafarer’ and uses it to chart global transfers – of language, texts, ideas and people – across space and time. This chapter explores how Drift meditates on the personal and political translations that structure our knowledge of the past and present, and how Bergvall marks out the temporal possibilities and ethical limits of movement across and between times and languages.

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Caroline BergvallDriftOld Englishmedieval‘The Seafarer’translationperformancemigration
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Performance and Translation in a Global Age , pp. 31 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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