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Karolina Pawlik: Lost in Translation, Found in Typography - Shanghai Typography of the Republican Period

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RAS LECTURE

TUESDAY 1st July 2014
7pm for 7.15pm
Tavern at the Radisson Xingguo Hotel

KAROLINA PAWLIKLost in Translation, Found in Typography:
Shanghai Typography of the Republican Period

Taking into consideration selected Chinese designs, mostly created by typographers of Republican-era Shanghai, Pawlik will reflect on issues of translation, transculturality and identity. She will also focus attention on the transcription of names, which in the contemporary world is not only experienced by famous artists or translated authors but also by many expatriates in their everyday life.
How could transcultural typography enhance processes occurring in multinational and multilingual communities? Could it become a sort of catalyst, making people realise cultural change through visually powerful designs? How to handle - both graphically and culturally, socially and personally - several names, written with different scripts? Is it possible to keep the trace of the primary language in cover designs for translations? How to express complex relations between various cultures and languages (scripts) through typography designs?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Karolina Pawlik is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Silesia (Poland) and Shanghai University. She is a participant of the elite interdisciplinary Ph.D. program of "Artes Liberales" Academy in Poland. An anthropologist and art historian, she is a member of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies. Having been bought up as a bilingual child in a Polish-Russian family, and spending several years of her childhood in Shanghai, she became interested in issues related to language, scripts and trasculturality at an early age. Currently she is completing her Ph.D. thesis on "Transformations of Chinese writing in Shanghai typography of the Republican period" and lectures at the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University.
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ENTRANCE:  Members 70 RMB - Non Members 100 RMB
Includes a glass of wine or soft drink
Priority for RAS members. Those unable to make the donation but wishing to attend may contact us for exemption.   
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