WORDS ARE WALLS / LES MOTS SONT DES MURS / PALABRAS SON PAREDES

What does it mean to inhabit a hybrid, multilingual space in our publishing work? How can translation become a collective, creative, and experimental process?

Exercises in collective translation led by Seán Elder, Sam Castro & Anahí Saravia Herrera In this workshop, we will work with archival materials (from Cubitt and beyond) to explore how DIY and grassroots approaches can inform translation practices. Through a series of playful collective exercises, we will experiment with different ways of approaching text, poetics, language, and meaning across multiple languages.

WORDS ARE WALLS is the first in a new series of events run by Cubitt Distribution Centre, imagining the ways that collective publishing practices might relate contemporary organising and art-making in our locale, with histories of radical print and podcast.

LES MOTS SONT DES MURS is Cubitt’s first collective translation workshop, which will take place in the context of The Hospitable Threshold: 25 Years of Angel Mews, which includes both archival materials from Cubitt’s history, and a new version of Anne Tallentire’s series ‘Setting Out’ which uses measurements of the interior spaces of buildings, and constellations of the activity inside them, to be captured in gallery settings.

PALABRAS SON PAREDES will engage with the relationship between architecture and language, and include experimental translation techniques undertaken collectively. Translation will be imperfect, resistant, and at times, either practical, poetic, or both. Cubitt staff will be on-hand to form groups in French and Spanish. If you would like to form a group in another language please email ahead.

Words Are Walls / Les Mots sont des Murs / Palabras son Paredes is part of ‘Collective Publishing Practices’, a programme hosted by Cubitt Distribution Centre (CDC). The programme centres work by community publishers, artists, writers, translators and organisers working through print, collective methodology and community distribution as modes of social action.