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Art • Writing • Diagrammatics
Full text linkThe status of writing in art practice and art-research has changed significantly in recent years. While new categories of ‘Art Writing’ and ‘Conceptual Writing’ come some way towards charting the evolving terrain, much current discourse fails to appreciate how the diverse textual practices found in current art and certain traditions of philosophy and literature imply a new interrogation of the image. Such work might be named ‘Diagrammatics’. The term is derived from the writing of Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari and elaborated through a reading of John Mullarkey’s Post-Continental Philosophy (2006). There are many histories of material-textual practice, many traditions of creative work in which words are used against conventions of reading and communication. Artists and art-researchers are well placed to show how the strands of these practices can be brought together as a new, extra-disciplinary work
Library Notes
No full textContribution to 'Has Man a Function in Universe: Strategic Question Number 2'
Has Man A Function In Universe? is part of an ongoing project to develop forty projects related to forty questions written by R. Buckminster Fuller. Each project is an artwork or a combination of artworks, developed in response to one of the questions. Of all the questions ‘Has Man A Function In Universe?’ may be the key that binds and directs all of the other questions.
Commissioned by Gavin Wade.
The publication will reflect the process of the project – an ‘exquisite corpse’ involving collaboration, dissemination and the combining of works.
Contributions from: Neil Chapman, Shezad Dawood, Per Hüttner, Juneau Projects, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Kerry James Marshall, Jessica Spanyol, Lisa Strömbeck, Mark Titchner, Sue Tompkins, Hayley Tompkins, Gavin Wade and Carey Young.
Co-published by Book Works and Eastside Projects. It is the sixth in a series of co-publishing partnerships initiated by Book Works, entitled Fabrications, edited by Gerrie van Noord
Writing As Occupation #3 (performance/installation)
No full textWriting As Occupation is a series of events and residencies inaugurated by David Stent and Neil Chapman exploring the materiality of writing practice and the complex relations between sound, voice, image and text. Previous events have involved the occupation of a mothballed science laboratory, a former print works and a converted jailhouse.
In association with Force8, the next incarnation of Writing as Occupation moves between the Methodist Chapel on the beach at West Bay and an undisclosed venue just beyond the town limits. A process of translation, embodied in writing practices that mimic switches between image and text, will be set up between the two sites
Writing As Occupation #3: (Artists Talk)
No full textA public talk concluding a residency at The Mothership, Crewkerne and force8, West Bay, Dorset, August/September 2016
Displacement Activity
No full textDisplacement Activities, newspaper publication; a series of fictions written with David Stent in response to 35mm slide images exchanged between the authors, published to coincide with Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson: England and Wales 1969 at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (10th May – 17th August 2013) London: ScenesAventures, 2013, ISBN: 978-0-9544901-5-
Memo Seven
No full textA project for Very Small Kitchen. New covers are designed for all the books cited by Italo Calvino in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, London: Penguin 2009
Earth Motifs, Shallow Designs, Outlands
Full text linkAn artists book with Ola Ståhl, Ola Ståhl & Terje Östling (series editors), Malmö: Publication Studio, 2013, Landscapes Series, ISBN 978-91-977853-9-
Insiders
Full text linkRumors persist that the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey is based on the work of Californian artist Jan Check. At an event organised to celebrate the artist’s life a technician sheds light on the problems involved in fabricating Check’s work. The suggested link with Kubrick’s film is revealed to be more plausible than previously thought.
The story is told of a 17th Century physician and his experiment into the question of consciousness carried out on a head in the moments after a convicted man’s execution by guillotine. A new embellishment of the story is proposed in which the assumed blank expression of death turns out instead to be a stealthy communication built, somehow, into non-signifying gestures of the face.
This piece is organised as two texts in parallel. In both cases they are factual accounts compounded by fiction. The piece approaches the theme of the Interior obliquely, as the not-stated concern of (un)related narratives. Both parts of the text are written in a concise and direct style allowing the registers of their engagement with the Interior to remain distinct. The challenge for the reader is to find the theme in implicit relations; the piece performs the complication of interior and exterior addressed also on the level of content
Glossolaris
No full textInspired by Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucaultʼs technique of ʻdiagonal readingʼ and taking Stanislaw Lemʼs Solaris as narrative context, Glossolaris proposes a procedure for writing that draws on ambiguous and margineal research resources. As scenarios for a new book emerge, they do so like phenomena witnessed on the surface of a remote planet. The new book will not be written, the scenarios will exist as a plan
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