Multimodality and the Arts: Creative and Performative Processes as Intersemiotic Translation (Bloomsbury Advances in Translation)

Researchers, translators, practitioners and artists join voices in this volume to explore the profound relationship between multimodality and translation.Looking at the subject from a wide range of perspectives, this book questions the possibility of redefining art practices and artworks as forms and processes of intersemiotic translation. Exploring the connection between multimodality, translation and the arts, the authors uncover the many overlooked practices of translation which are already inherent in artistic research and in the production of multimodal artworks and texts.In the process, they demystify the notion of multimodality as a matter of artistic inquiry only, examining the processes of embodied, collaborative, kinetic, material, and intersemiotic translation which artists have always undertaken within their work.The book is divided into four distinct yet interrelated sections.Part One explores multimodality as a key notion to re-conceptualise translation in the arts, encom