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Toronto Experimental Translation Collective is


Benjamin de Boer

Yoyo Comay

Nicholas Hauck

Eddy Wang

Fan Wu

Ami Xherro


Combining the formats of seminars, workshops, and performances, the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective (TETC) renegotiates relationships within and across languages and media. 


We use methods of homophonics, transcription, field recording, algorithmic distortion, and cross-disciplinary hybridity to create spaces for heterotopic pedagogy. 


The texts, recordings, and performances produced document our unlearning of prior assumptions around communication. 


These activities develop strategies for withdrawal from the instrumentalization of language systems. In addressing the hegemonic power of major languages, TETC brings to the fore language’s potential in play and protest.

TETC's meeting with Miss Othmar, leading the listener through a choreography of embodied scenes by reciting collectively composed forms of Butoh-fu


TETC preformed Ur-daddymachine for Siren Recording's sonic poetty event, with sound poets Gary Barwin and Paul Dutton. 


Recorded over two years and two provinces, TETC's debut album Hot Tub is a sensory trip of sound poetry, ambience, and melodrama -- a document of the disintegration and persistence of language.



TETC's six-way translation of Paul Celan's poem "Musselheap," published in Issue V of Glyphöria (Metatron Press).



TETC's sound poem translation of excerpts from Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life, published in Issue II of Glyphöria (Metatron Press).

What Digs Utopia?  TETC's collaboration with Pumice Raft, part of their Implicit Choreographies & Relational Topographies programming.

Anxious Languages / Langues anxieuses  project with students from Brock University.

Homesenseaccent Into Plushblugginsfolk, TETC Press' first chapbook available for $12.

TETC's contribution to Tewaaraton. La crosse / Lacrosse, published by the Small Walker Press (2022).

haste's 6' gymnasium, TETC's contribution to The Art Bar's online poetry reading series, from january 26 2022.

TETC's postcard mailer project with Peripheral Review

The shape of your face, the speed of your speech, TETC's garden interview in Peripheral Review

TETC's toronto island workshop, september 7 2021

Jonker Piet En Sibbel: A Radio Play

compilation of scenes from TETC's 40 minute 5-act butoh-inspired performance conceived, created, and performed at Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada

TETC jam, december 2020

TETC's broken telephone cue cards, november 2020

short film Dictee featuring members of TETC

computational linguistics play from TETC's 2020 summer residency

transcriptions, notes, and drafts on homophonic translations, from TETC's 2020 summer residency

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audio from TETC's 2020 summer residency

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