Monday, 16 March 2009
I have started to think more about where my work fits in, at present i havn't made anything actually physical, i'm not sure i feel like like i should, writing things down seems to get things more clear in my mind.
It was suggested to me that i think about thoughts as my material, handing on to the viewer a new thought. All i know is that i am interested in..
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Having vague thoughts about different ways to reach an audience, through subconcious, instead of concious, indirectly, unintentionally, non-visually maybe. Thoughts as a material, invisible, liminal, figments. Thoughts are separate to the act of talking, spoken words, and separate to written words, breaks in communication.
I came across a program called 'Text Arc'. A TextArc is a visual represention of a text, the entire text, on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning.
http://www.textarc.org/
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You might want to look at Figuring the Word by Johanna Drucker, she has been interested in the relationship between word and image for a long time and has written several books that try and unpick this. However you could also see your work as a script. The crossing opposite Morrisons has that inbuilt sound system that repeats, “Beware two way traffic” over and over again. The confusion this causes is very interesting. Not least because a large proportion of people crossing at that point are not native English speakers. What if your work was broadcast in a similar way? If so where would you site the speakers?
You need to start engaging with more theoretical and practical issues. Also we have a seminar on Thursday you will need to contribute.
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