Marginalised texts, immigrant subjectivity and translating beyond the limits of one's language
This research project explores the process of translation beyond ‘translation proper’ to assess its productive potential in presenting marginalised texts and to ensure that seemingly untranslatable texts can enter the cultural domain. It foregrounds contemporary art practices to bring attention to under-recognised voices from outside the spheres of influence. The research is conducted through a perspective of a subjective identity, that of an immigrant living in the U.K., and exposes vulnerabilities of a non-native, non-fluent English speaker. Informed by lived experiences, the dominance of linguistic language is questioned and at times subverted to propose a non-hierarchical constellation of meanings produced by gestures, materials, and various non-verbal and verbal languages. The research proposes experimental methods, drawing, painting, moving image and clay, as well as the practice of curating to create a new methodology for translating marginalised texts.
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LAHP (The London Arts and Humanities Partnership)
More about Lika
Biography
Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi is an artist and a researcher based in London/Tbilisi. Her practice focuses on intersections between visual arts and text.
Degrees
MA with Distinction in Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art
Liberal Arts, Bard College Berlin
Awards
Open Space Contemporary curatorial residency
LAHP scholarship
Funding
LAHP studentship
Exhibitions
Earthwise, group exhibition of RCA’s PhD students at Beaconsfield Gallery, London, June 2023
Research Biennale 2023, Royal College of Art, hosted by Copeland Gallery, London, June 2023
F(r)ictions at Leftbank, curated by Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer and Marina Georgiou, Tbilisi, April 2023
Food Resilience with Olha Pryymak, curated by Dana Olarescu and Noemi Gunea at Calthorpe Community Garden, London, December 2022
Kupala Festival at Phytology, London, June 2022
Poetry Festival: Long Song for Summer at Camden Arts Centre, June 2022. London
On The Other Side of The Hill, a group exhibition at E.A. Shared Space, May 2022. Tbilisi
Unruly Encounters, PhD group exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, March 2022. London
Drawing Research Forum. Drawing Room, London. November 2021
Missing. Public programme, Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi. September 2021
F(r)ictions. 6. Summer programme curated by Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer, August 2021
Suzhou Panorama. Co-curator with Angiet Chen. An international, collaborative and interdisciplinary 3-year curatorial programme and exhibition at Suzhou Design Week taking place in Suzhou, China. November 2019
Poetry as Exhibition. Public talk at E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi. September 2019
Re: over everything which exists under the sky. Co-curator with Linnéa Bake, Yalda Bidshahri, Carlie Yixuan Chang, Claudia Contu, Victoria Gyuleva and Jing Jin. The project in collaboration with Royal College of Art and Gasworks, London. October 2018 – May 2019
Reminiscence. Co-curator with Keti Japaridze. Close-up Cinema, London. March 2019
Table Manners, Chalton Gallery, London. Group exhibition. Curators: Inês Neto Dos Santos, Isabel Blanco-Fernández and Nora Silva. November 2018
Marijan: Reading at the Cemetery, exploring poetry of Mariam Tkemaladze. Curator. Tbilisi, September 2018
Georgia 100: Video Works. Co-curator with Keti Japaridze. Close-up Cinema, London. Artists: Aleksi Soselia, Sophia Tabatadze. May 2018
Publications
Danarti #14. Guest editor for Danarti Magazine’s 14th publication. July 2021. https://danarti.org/en
Care By, ed. Gemma Blackshaw, London UK: Royal College of Art, 2021
Guest editor for Danarti magazine issue 15 https://www.instagram.com/danarti_zine/?hl=en