Last week I attended a talk at the University of Leeds by Louise Atkinson on her exhibition there.
Louise talked about the development of the projects including the role of dialogue in each work. As a socially engaged practitioner, the dialogue with communities in development of the work is fundamental. The workshops/session Louise ran informed the work through dialogue about cultural heritage, about place and site and about language. Louise also discussed translanguaging:
“Translanguaging is the process whereby multilingual speakers use their languages as an integrated communication system. Translanguaging is an extension of the concept of languaging, the discursive practices of language speakers, but with the additional feature of using multiple languages, often simultaneously.”
