“Experiential translation and creative life writing”
by Gaia Del Negro & Silvia Luraschi
In this presentation, we are going to talk about our recent research on experiential translation Ospitare/Hosting others (2021-22) included in the AHRC funded project Experiential Translation: meaning-making across languages and the arts. See https://experientialtranslation.net
We have explored the potential to translate in different languages and media some poems in Italian for creative engagement with otherness and embodiment of cultural objects (Del Negro, Luraschi, Delorenzi, & El Saadany 2022; Del Negro 2019). This time, after presenting the project we are going to offer a practice of embodiment through Feldenkrais method sitting on the chair. Afterwards, we will read a poem in Italian by a contemporary poet and thinker, Chandra Livia Candiani (1952-). Candiani is a beloved poet for us both. She was born and raised in Milan where we live, and has published also about Buddhist meditation and silence (2021, Il silenzio è cosa viva). She has worked with autobiographical poetry for many years in public elementary schools in the disadvantaged suburbs of the city (2015, Ma dove sono le parole). It will the first time we experiment with her poetry, so we will ask the participants to share with us if they want the creative collaborative life writings from the poem to continue collecting materials for our research.
Gaia Del Negro, PhD, is a researcher in Adult Education and teacher of Italian as a second and foreign language. She works as evaluator of social projects and trainer in community welfare and gender equality with a participatory practice-based approach in Milan. She collaborates with the University of Milano Bicocca and with the Sunkhronos Institute in Geneva. She is involved in the Life History and Biography Network of ESREA - European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, in the international group of feminist scholars and activists Gender Justice, Creative Pedagogies and Art-based Research coordinated by the University of Victoria, Canada, and in the Experiential Translation Network: Meaning Making Across Languages and the Arts.
Silvia Luraschi, PhD, is a pedagogist, Feldenkrais method practitioner, counsellor, and researcher in Adult Education. She works as a coordinator of social service in Milan, and she is collaborating with Milano Bicocca University. Her research interests include embodied narratives, aesthetic practices, and walking methodologies. She is involved in the Life History and Biography Network of ESREA - European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, and in the international group of feminist scholars and activists Gender Justice, Creative Pedagogies and Art-based Research coordinated by the University of Victoria, Canada. She is involved in Experiential Translation Network: Meaning Making Across Languages and the Arts.