Who has the right to be incomprehensible? - In conversation with Rina Kenović

Mexican-Bosnian researcher, poet, performer and translator Rina Kenović explores the forms of expression that resist linguistic conventions. Ranging from experimental poetry to the myths around the mother tongue, this conversation examines our need to understand everything, the power relations that decide what is worth translating, and the political potential of opacity. But where is the line between resisting the demand to be intelligible and being elitist? What happens when a language refuses to be understood, when a poem escapes translation, when words come undone and sound wins out over sense?