Echoes of Others
Illuminating the gaps amid translation

In today’s world, new forms of digital technologies facilitate global communication, traversing the once impermeable political and geographic borders in unprecedented and unimaginable ways. What are the consequences of our globalized world on the way we relate to and communicate with those around us? How does the translation of information affect our responses to human rights and global issues?

On the one hand, human rights issues have become increasingly visible, broadcast through a variety of media, whose dissemination of information makes possible greater accessibility and detail. On the other, the inconsistencies of such technological access around the world continue to reinforce the widening gaps that exist between people and places. Whilst communication should be crisp and clear, it is, too often, broken, frozen and distorted as the process of translation allows for interpretation, re-interpretation and, more often than not, misinterpretation.

In the context of this exhibition, echoes become a way of reflecting these ambiguous translations. The work exhibited explores echoes both materially and conceptually, as voices are silenced, images fade, and meaning is reconstructed. Within and outside of the gallery space, poetic encounters allow for meaningful engagement and intimate connections with others, reflecting on the miscommunications that seem to shape the world and affect the way we treat one another.

Featured Artists:

Alexia Germaine, Marilène Blain, and Louis Philippe Lévesque, Anita Belia, Baden Pailthorpe, Brad Haylock, Dinalie Dabera, The Keiskamma Project, Louise Hunter, Lex Randolph, Minela Krupic, Nasim Nasr, Sue Kneebone, and Veronica Grow.

Curators:

Samantha McCulloch and Frances Fleetwood Wilkinson

Echoes of Others took place as part of the 2012 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, HRAFF, a Melbourne based not-for-profit organisation devoted to the exploration of human rights issues through an annual film and arts festival with ongoing school and community programs. Their mission is to make human rights accessible and engaging to everyone through creative media.

Media:

http://rightnow.org.au/artwork/hraff-art-exhibition-echoes-of-others/

http://www.alsa.net.au/:human-rights-arts-a-film-festival-program-launched

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/about-town/highlights-of-the-hraff