RAS Shanghai – Lost in Translation, Found in Typography: Shanghai Typography of the Republican Period – 1/7/14
Posted: June 30th, 2014 | 1 Comment »RAS LECTURE
Tuesday 1 July 2014
7pm for 7:15pm
The Tavern, Radisson Blu Plaza Xingguo Hotel
78 XingGuo Road, Shanghai
KAROLINA PAWLIK
Lost in Translation, Found in Typography:
Shanghai Typography of the Republican Period
Taking into consideration selected Chinese designs, mostly created by typographers of the Republican Shanghai, Karolina 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 expats in their everyday life.
How can transcultural typography enhance some processes occurring in multinational and multilingual communities? Can 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?
Karolina Pawlik is a Ph.D. student at the University of Silesia (Poland) and Shanghai University. She is a participant in the elite interdisciplinary Ph.D. program of the “Artes Liberales” Academy in Poland. An anthropologist and art historian, she is a member of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies. Being brought up as a bilingual child in a Polish-Russian family and spending several years of her childhood in Shanghai, she became interested at an early age in issues related to language, scripts and trasculturality. Currently she is completing her Ph.D. thesis on “Transformations of Chinese Writing in Shanghai Typography of the Republican Period“, and has lectured 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
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At that time, the Republic of China has a lot of things have been forgotten. .