the diffracted dash is a publication and a collaboration between artists Minia Biabiany and Imri Sandström. It started as a conversational sharing regarding the book Philosophie de la Relation – poésie en étendue by Édouard Glissant, and its Swedish translation, Relationens filosofi – Omfångets poesi. Talking back and forth through these texts and languages continuously opened up different meanings and connections. This scattering and linking of variations and details formed a conversation on language, translation, colonization, opacity and traces. Parts of this conversation was made into a risograph publication. A reading of the diffracted dash took place in conjunction with the release of the publication 2016-06-17 at Signal – Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö. the diffracted dash is a part of the doctoral project Howe Across Reading – Performing the Past.