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An utterly singular project from National Translation Award winner, Katrine Øgaard Jensen.
Equal parts exercise and exorcism, Ancient Algorithms recasts translation as an endlessly generative art form unto itself. Poet-translator Katrine Øgaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry based on a series of self-imposed rules and rituals in collaboration with poets Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, CAConrad, Baba Badji, Paul Cunningham, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself.
Katrine Øgaard Jensen and her collaborators engage in transritual and transcreation as acts of writing—transwriting. Their varied triggers and processes are spectacular. Ancient Algorithms reveals immense possibilities of language and poetry to become fearless and unbordered.
—Don Mee Choi, author of Mirror Nation
An utterly singular project from National Translation Award winner, Katrine Øgaard Jensen.
Equal parts exercise and exorcism, Ancient Algorithms recasts translation as an endlessly generative art form unto itself. Poet-translator Katrine Øgaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry based on a series of self-imposed rules and rituals in collaboration with poets Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, CAConrad, Baba Badji, Paul Cunningham, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself.
Katrine Øgaard Jensen and her collaborators engage in transritual and transcreation as acts of writing—transwriting. Their varied triggers and processes are spectacular. Ancient Algorithms reveals immense possibilities of language and poetry to become fearless and unbordered.
—Don Mee Choi, author of Mirror Nation
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