leeds book fair/chao

If life is as nice as the initial meeting.

Stranger/ Janine

Trying to animate Triangulation book as part of a performance work I am developing. Making the leap from one reader dealing with the book to presentating it as a video sequence. The transitions between the text-images don't work properly on here, and they are as important as the words themselves. They should fade in and then snap to the next image, so there is a moment when both are seen and then suddenly change. I am wondering how to deal with this.

you here

‘you pass through the center of the spine and then you realise you are here’
The act of reading draws you through the book.

http://georgecullen.tumblr.com/

Cards

In this collection, two characters name Mickey and Chacha, are in one of the twelve cards. You could take any card to connect with another one, and it does not matter which order you arrange. Even you could create your own new skyline of London.

Portrait cards.

Napkin Project # Laura

Leeds Book Fair/ Natalie

www.sabigotho.com

Christa's "Sights"

Looking through multiple contact lenses - at the book's maker -

Xhibit 2011

1968. Un-titled.

1968. Un-titled. will be shown @ Xhibit 2011.

Egidija

1968. Un-titled

Plane, space, line (postponed arrivals). I have been trying to stop vapour trails using spot stickers. The pictures have been taken inside looking out with spots stuck to the glass.

The focus for my proposal has been to validate intuition as a methodology, transposing context for the found and evaluating chance. Through practical experiments I want to choreograph collisions between different graphical components of text, pattern and form, transforming the original into something new. Through this I aim to depict the interrelations between destruction and construction grasping the tension between order and disorder.

Danny Aldred

Making and Unmaking Text across performance disciplines

My proposal to present my writing practice at Beyond Text has been accepted. I will be presenting "Writing Centres", a practical investigation of the relationship between spatial and compositional structures in my current project Arena. The presentation of practice will explore text images in relation to performance, the resolution of movement practice in text, how a physical and writing practice meet...This research ground has evolved through my current post-graduate studies at Camberwell College of Arts and TrinityLaban (visual arts and choreologicalstudies).

I will be exploring spatial concepts beginning with the assignment of a centre within the kinesphere, the physical space constituted by our physical structure, the far reach of which is determined by motility. I will consider this concept in relation to text- where is the centre of the text, what centre of gravity? Through this analogy to the body I will ask questions about peripherality and multiple centres, exploring how this spatial strucuturing functions in my current text project Arena as I experiment with book and performance structures.

Central to the rationale for such a discussion is the usefulness of information transfer between disciplines- the understanding of one thing in terms of another and the possibility afforded my these multiple lenses.

Making and Unmaking Text is a dialogue addressing sites of language in contemporary practices. The three day eventlooks to expand the notion of the academic conference and is funded by AHRC as part of Beyond Text research.

http://commonthingstotalkabout.blogspot.com

http://textmaking.blogspot.com/

Fired books

1968. Un-titled.

 

1968. Un-titled.

  

My present work focuses on memory, identity, historical truth, change, our links with past and fragility of those links. I take books, that no longer have the society that supports them and I reduce their materiality and their content to an immensely fragile state  - so fragile, that they may disintegrate in hands - just like the memory of the times, that they represent.

I do not fire random books. The books fired for this project come from a wheelbarrow in Lithuania: in the summer of 2009 they were ready for the fireplace. The books are old Soviet text books and propaganda books, published in the sixties and the seventies. They very much representative of their times and their locale. Not only for then truths they contain, but also for their indexality. So I cremate them, I purge them of the memories and the thoughts and the residue that they carry.




- Egidija Čiricaitė

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

http://georgecullen.tumblr.com/

If July comes I stay

Hi everyone!
This is a link to a summary of the book for the H.D project. http://www.sabigotho.com/acedia/books/Pages/If_July_comes_I_stay.html
And this is a link to the little video clip of it ( bottom right) http://www.sabigotho.com/acedia/Movingcollage.html (there is sound so make sure you adjust the volume of you computer before visiting).

See you on Wednesday!

natalie

This is my Helen Douglas project. The piece is called 'Tightly Coiled' and its my first animated project. You need to click on the image to view. The piece contains imagery of the downstairs corridor at Wilson Road and the spots refer to emotions. Any feedback is welcome. Danny Aldred

Saved

Different Whelms:

Renee, Janine, Wiebke... this is my fave doodle from the 'whelm' ideas we were talking about, did you get on with it much?

sorry for the multiple posts... x, christa.