“Our world is woven through translation. We translate between different languages, between image and word, between different types of signs, between distinct cultural spheres, between geographical locations, between thought and action…”
Translatability (2011, ed. Sara Arrhenius, Magnus Bergh, and Cecilia Sjöholm)
Based at the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station outside the coastal town of Varberg in Halland, Art Inside Out invites you to an artistic residency titled In the Wake. In the residency, we explore together with participating artists the continuous and uninterrupted movement of translations that constitute a complex and fundamental part of human interaction, transnational flows, and connections.
Over the hundred years since Grimeton Radio Station established Sweden’s first wireless communication channel across the Atlantic, the flow of information, people, and communication has exploded. Today, we live in a globalized era where exchanges are an integral part of our daily lives and the larger geopolitical landscape. But what happens when languages, materials, and identities are transferred from one context to another? What emerges and what is lost when boundaries are crossed? In each such transfer, shifts occur—what we call translations. Here, various forms of movements, negotiations, and transformations take place. In the residency In the Wake we approach translation as a coherent yet multifaceted field that opens up relationships between different life forms and states as well as winding branches into new contexts characterized by plurality and creolization.
Under Grimeton’s seemingly calm surface lies a long life bursting with movements—not least all the stories that have traveled via the station’s radio waves. They form a bridge between the past, present, and future and are also a vital springboard for excavations of historical and contemporary events that open up for philosophical and existential reflections. On geopolitics, the everyday, and everything in between. Residency
The ResidencyIn the Wake explores the possibilities and limits of translation as well as its inconsistencies, dissonances, and resistance. From an artistically creative and open process, the participating artists create new artworks during the spring of 2025, which, between June 14–August 24, are presented in and around the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station. The work thus becomes a fantastic part of Grimeton’s anniversary “100 years of Communication”.
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In the Wake Nordic Call for Residency 2025 – Art Inside Out
