| This thesis tracks the contradictions that emerge from cultural exchanges by tracing a parallel between artworks dealing with postcolonialism, otherness and translation. It goes deep into the void of errors of communication, the lost meanings of language and the failure of cross-cultural exchanging, in relation to contemporary art. This study compares six cases in Chapters One and Two, to eight cases that use translation in Chapters Three and Four. Taking the postcolonial discourse as a starting point, two modes of cultural relationships developed by Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida---irreconcilability and hospitality---are used to reveal how, within artworks, a broken fluency of language can modify hierarchical bounds of multiculturalism. |
