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Dominic Montaguefor those communicative systems common to both languages with which identical informationcan be exchanged.” Here we could add:Translating kuir isbecoming kuir (again).One of the provocateurs, Dominic Montague, turns to the metaphor of water. Water circulatesin different ways and in different containers. In the step between the source and the package,so the water can circulate without spilling, lies the first act of translation. “We have oftenhad to build, to pass through packages that do not fit us; we are always translating, and thisalso translates the body. Choosing which private things become public is a way of decidingthe course the water will flow. Because before we start to speak, we have to calculate howour muscles and neurons stack up, analyzing what is safe, what can be said. Once we make18
ourselves public, we translate ourselves in our presence. Being queer is very different dependingon where we are, and will also be different five years from now.”This, perhaps, is the reality: as queer beings we share an experience within time and distance.“I used to think that the last threshold of freedom was saying whatever we want. Now I thinkthe last threshold is when someone translates theirself.”Returning here to the good translation manual, we find another definition that TRANSLATINGKUIR brings into play: “The translator’s role is therefore to decipher ciphered communicationand transpose it on to their own language by way of a new key.”Translating Kuir isrefusing to builda single language.Taking risksSince the call for proposal one question has been raised that, as it probes for answers,reformulates itself and reveals a tremendous problem. So tremendous that it could have evenquestioned the feasibility of the very call. Natalia Mallo, Lisa Kerner, Violeta Uman and RuthMacCarth–the hosts from their respective spaces–are aware of the dilemma they are pointing towith their invitation: “The central theme of these encounters is the untranslatable”. What wordsdo we speak to each other? What is the tone? From the beginning, we assume the impossibilityof the subject we are going to try to discover. The great question is how to talk for and from acollective, how to address a community looking for shared paths without “smoothing over thedifference”. Does this community exist? And if we assume that it does, what unifies it? How doyou avoid naming yourself and limiting yourself to the place of reaction, to what you are not,to your opposite?19
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