Cult L / Creative Workshop 3: In (another's) Tongues
Block 5: 5 meetings
Fri June 26 / Mon June 29, Wed July 1 / Mon July 6, Wed July 8
10:30-11:50 am (NY) / 5:30-6:50 pm (St. Pete/Kyiv)
Translation is rarely a neutral act; it is a radical dismantling and rebuilding of the world. In this workshop, we move past the idea of language as a mere delivery system for meaning, instead treating it as a raw material to be stretched, broken, and re-fused. Students will navigate the mechanics of intralingual mutation, stripping down their own native syntax to discover the alien structures hidden within familiar speech. We will challenge the traditional borders of interlingual exchange, viewing the transition between languages not as a search for equivalence, but as a site of poetic friction and multilingual invention. Extending our reach into the intersemiotic, the course investigates how text survives the migration to the screen. This will not be a study of mirrors, but of prisms—where the act of carrying a word across a border inevitably changes its shape.