Month: November 2021

Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury or Sakib as friends call him, lives and works in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is our Artist in Residence from October until December 2021.A fter many hours of exploring, carefully listening, collecting, rejecting, connecting, rethinking and arraning we warmly invite you to have a look behind studio doors:
Sun, 5 December 2021, 2-6 pm
6 until 9 December 2021 by appointment sakibsakib18@gmail.com

“We live in a strange world where fiction and reality co-exist. Everyday unusual events for example, human destruction, war, migrations, death, and ecological destruction and more have become a normal phenomena and we dream for a peaceful world within political, financial and technological utopias. My project will be a poetic gesture to question these issues through experiencing everyday life. The development will be in flux and floating movement which can navigate to several direction and I shall allow these multiplicities, possibilities, miracles and chances. It would be interesting to know how they interact in different time, space and situation.”
Gastatelier Rote Fabrik, IG Rote Fabrik, Seestrasse 400 , Zürich
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IN ENGLISH with Lina Mounzer
Writing as an Act of Translation
Questions of translation have always been central to Lina Mounzer’s writing. It seems to her that there is a kind of estrangement in the act of writing that can only really be described as translation. But she has never been interested in this as just an abstract question: when “living” in one language and writing about it in another, questions of technique, of how to render the feeling and character of a place in a language not its own, sometimes become ethical issues. Living in the Arab world and writing about it in English means inevitably grappling with questions of violence, erasure, misrepresentation and audience expectation. One cannot help but remain constantly alert to possible multiple readings of the text and what it might mean in wider political contexts. How, in that case, to render the most “natural” translation possible, and how to navigate that estrangement from place and language in a way that might serve the work instead of detracting from it?
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Thursday 2 December from 6.30 to 7.30 pm
Event in English
Free admission, on registration | Access restricted to holders of a valid Covid certificate + ID card
FONDATION JAN MICHALSKI POUR L’ECRITURE ET LA LITTERATURE
En Bois Désert 10, CH-1147 Montricher