Thursday, May 2 - Re-Transmissions: The Voice is the Message

Re-Transmissions is a night of screening, audio play and live presentation exploring the acts of transmission and translation of voices. Focusing on rare and endangered Indigenous tongues spoken in the Americas and Europe, the evening presents a selection of films and interdisciplinary projects which re-mediate the oral acts, which re-connect the language with the bodies and the land, as well as with the mediators — collectors, translators and/or recording technologies. Here, the artists and filmmakers take us in the spaces of dissociation and glitches; capture the delicate, and sometimes radical, movements of transfer, migration, and encounter. Polyglottic and polyphonic, the program raises questions about ownership, authenticity, memory, loss and cultural resistance.

Presented in conjunction with this is the no thing that we are, exhibition curated by Mathilde Walker-Billaud as part of the requirements for the master of arts degree at CCS BARD College, this event includes the works of Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Rachel Berwick, Bethan Huws, Gala Porras-Kim, Peter Snowdon, Krista Belle Stewart.