Lost in Translation: Art and Music Festival is an art and digital media festival that blends visual arts, music, and performance art for a virtual audience through live video streaming. Audiences can log on to www.evaliaart.com/lostintranslation to view a live feed (3 hours) of different artists and musicians whose work reflects on or represents what is lost, and gained, in translation. The audience will tune in through their device and interact with each other via a live chat.

The headlining performance piece is a work titled “Live Translations” by artist Eva Lia, featuring music by DJ YungCaramel. In this performance, Eva translates music lyrics live between many different languages in response to growing up having to translate all sorts of documents and conversations for her immigrant parents. The concept behind "Live Translations" is an exploration of multilingualism and the interculturality embedded in their lives. The result is a reflection of having to navigate the complexities of thinking and engaging with diverse communities, and languages, in a fluid way. By connecting party culture with the rigorous labor of producing speedy translations, the project generates a dialogue between language bridges and barriers and causes audiences to reevaluate their own relationship to language interpretation through a direct, but fun, confrontation with being “lost in translation.” 

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The festival structure will provide a platform for other emerging and under-represented artists, both locally and streamed in from around the world, to share their own perspectives and interpretation of the phrase “lost in translation.” The festival will provide and sustain an accessible platform for the participating artists to share their artistry and creativity with the world in an effort to encourage a deeper engagement with multiculturalism and diversity in the arts. The free digital festival will support the representation of artists of different backgrounds coming together to reflect on their relationships to cultural production and creative collaboration.  

Originally planned as a live, in-person event, the project was adapted to be digitally streamed in response to the risks and limitations of in-person gatherings due to Covid-19. The festival's website, currently being developed by programmer Jonathan Yataco, will feature a live streamed video footage, and a chat function which will expand the project’s geography and allow audiences around the world to tune in, listen in, and engage with each other in whichever language they prefer!

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Team

Eva Pedriglieri: Director, curator, performer

Jonathan Yataco: Developer, performer

Thomas Field: Tech/Media manager

Pamela Solares: Curator

Luana Pedriglieri: Marketing Manager, performer

Derek Hernandez: Videographer, filmmaker