Artistic Work as a Practice of Translation on the Global Art Market: The Example of "African" Dancer and Choreographer Germaine Acogny. Issue 1 (23rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Klein, Gabriele
• Editors: Pewny, Katharina; Van Assche, Annelies; Leenknegt, Simon; Kowal, Rebekah J.
• Is Part Of: Dance research journal. Volume 51:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 8
• Page End: 19
• Publication Date: 2019-04-23
• Subjects: artwork, -- global art market, -- praxeology, -- cultural translation, -- "African" dance, -- performance art, -- postcolonial studies, -- translation studies, -- gender studies; Dance -- Periodicals; 793.3
• DOI: 10.1017/S0149767719000019
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0149-7677

Abstract

Abstract : Identity, difference, and translation are important theoretical concepts in the field of translation studies and postcolonial studies. It is a basic assumption of this text that aesthetic and cultural translation is exposed to the paradox of identity and difference and that this paradox is particularly evident in artistic performance practices such as dance and choreography. Focusing on the artistic work of choreographer and dancer Germaine Acogny (Senegal), the text addresses artistic translation practices under postcolonial conditions in the global art market of so-called "contemporary dance." The aim is to illustrate how contradictory, hybrid, and fragmented the cultural and aesthetic translation process is, how the global art market shapes the artistic strategies of translation, and how aesthetic productivity lies in the impossibility of translating cultural experience artistically.