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From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Denise Delgado

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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:09 PM

Subject: Re:Re: Fw: Convite para exposição Rede de Tensão -Paço das Ar tes

i really like Ittai's idea below--especially living here in Miami, where there are so many Latin American populations for whom the same word in the same LANGUAGE can have a totally different meaning. (i.e., papaya for a lot of countries is just a fruit, but the word papaya for cubans is considered, uh, vulgar)

 

 

 

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From: Ittai Bar-Joseph <[log in to unmask]>

Now, there's a concept for an exhibition:
Choose a word that sounds the same but has a different meaning in two languages, invite artists from the countries who speak the languages (say Brazil/Portugal and Israel in this case) and commission them to make works that relate to the word, but to consider the word's meaning in the other language as well. (Maybe the relationship should be something like foreground and background colors in photoshop, the foreground being the word in your language, background in the other). Could be an interesting, think of the word "Zona" we were blabbering about:
<--Portuguese-region / Hebrew-whore-->
See you,
Ittai.