Abstract
Literary translator and poet Jen Calleja discusses the process of translating the photo-book The Clock—the catalogue of the film installation of the same name by artist Christian Marclay—into poetry in order to explore what a feminist translation might look like via an experimental translation practice. Featuring examples of the poems created from her self-initiated intersemiotic translation project, Calleja tackles issues such as translating sexist and misogynistic texts and source materials, how a translator’s subjectivity affects the translations they produce, and the agency—or lack thereof—that a translator has to choose and comment on the texts she translates.
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Mine certainly isn’t the first creative or expressive response in writing to The Clock–for instance, Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit’s email correspondences on the original installation were published in book form in 2010 by the Museum of Loneliness and then Test Centre.
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From here onwards, any mention of The Clock, unless otherwise stated, will be in reference to the catalogue of the same name published by White Cube.
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Calleja, J. (2019). Life’s Too Short: On Translating Christian Marclay’s Photo-Book The Clock. In: Campbell, M., Vidal, R. (eds) Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97244-2_16
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