An experiment into the immersive nature of the page. In reading are you cut off from everything? In reading do you absent yourself? It was important that it was printed on newsprint. The lightness in the paper has an immediacy. Like it could get caught in the wind and blown anywhere, your eyes caught in the text as it blows by. For a split second your there on the page. A moment of realisation, then it’s gone.
I’ve been fascinated with catching a glimpse of pages. Like discarded newspapers. You make a connection with a word. Are you there with the word for that split second of reading? Are you in the space of the page? Do you get caught within it?
The control of the page is very important and how language is used within the context of this space.
How can language control the page and how can the page control you?
George
I like the movement qualities that in themselves suggest sequence. Have you seen sagmeister project using the fading properties of newsprint paper as a communicative tool on a billboard - here's the link - I love this idea of the text disappearing http://tiny.cc/0b8z9
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Tangential thought - the bleaching out of the billboard is similar to (but different from?) the use of high pressure water spray, and stencils, to leave logos, messages, etc on pavements - which will disappear through the reappearance of the dirt that was washed away. Also there's the guy who draws in tunnels by removing the dirt ... ah yes, Moose - from a quick google, it seems there's a lot of "reverse graffiti" about!
ReplyDeleteenjoyed the thoughtful links to George’s work - I would recommend looking up reverse graffiti - interesting politics around it - also the idea of intervention seems pertinent - Maurizio Cattelan - his Oblomov foundation plaque and also selling advertising space at the Venice Biennale spring to mind
ReplyDeletei love this. it brings all sorts of things to mind, i was thinking how to make public the private act of reading and thought about how words are insistent, because once you can read you can not un-learn it, that the written word seems hostile to me because it displaces your internal monologue, speaks others words directly into your mind, and we are bombarded with text all day. i remember betraying my resentment with the statement "since when did a shape stop being a shape and become a letter?"
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ReplyDeletecontrol, control, control ... i'm hearing this word so much these days...
ReplyDeletei am really enjoying the work esp the videos - palindrome 1 and 2 - could these be filmed more professionally in a 'blank' space - without the pot plants etc as they distract from the work which is most excellent.
ReplyDeleteconsider looking at artists videos and how artists choose to show work that moves or is interactive
i would look at the early performance/action artists from the 70s
an artist called daniel von sturmer http://www.danielvonsturmer.com/
would be interesting to look at
http://2007.australiavenicebiennale.com.au/content/view/23/45/lang,en/
also maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YqAoKmCpBA