This idea will have to wait for a later project. It is too late in the process to sort this out without becoming stressful (and, therefore, unenjoyable). Also, as you may have sussed yourself/ves, the text is becoming rather too long to fit on something so small.
Perhaps, though, to counter my concern about the potential of paper to pulp, I may print the text on some nice shiny (or perhaps not) card. I want the text to last. As if it were in a book, but not.
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The Giraffe
The draft published below (Copyright me, by the way... nehhhh, hands off) was written over the space of one week, in two sittings. The first, in a pub, sitting in a quiet corner with a Guinness, the second, in the PCA library, in between tutorials with BA students. This draft has been relatively easy to write, as, although the ideas are new to paper, they have been floating around my head for some time now. Also, the key arguments to which I am referring are solidly imprinted on the inside of my head, having formed the basis of my MPhil research all those many years ago.
Looking at those images, I am not so sure now about printing my handwritten text for all to see.
Looking at those images, I am not so sure now about printing my handwritten text for all to see.
Monday, 17 November 2008
Yes, I know
Post three, day one. What you have to understand is that this isn't actually day one. The below-mentioned thoughts, ideas and concepts occurred between a few weeks ago and today. I am catching up. It's a fiction of sorts. But then you didn't know that until I told you (I wield my authority!)
Although I am weblogging this process, I plan to write this project by hand from beginning to end. That is, the process of writing the text itself.
It is interesting to note that artists want to talk to me (full stop.)
It is interesting to note that artists want to talk with me about the content of my writing. This suggests... [something] haha.
Title [?] - Telling Stories (I've seen the title in red from the start. I don't know why. Perhaps a hang-over from my own earliest work - in memory. Red heading, black text. School. Textual landscape describing New York skyline. I now want to to find it to show you. Everything relates, everything links to everything else - a cliche, but true.)
Although I am weblogging this process, I plan to write this project by hand from beginning to end. That is, the process of writing the text itself.
It is interesting to note that artists want to talk to me (full stop.)
It is interesting to note that artists want to talk with me about the content of my writing. This suggests... [something] haha.
Title [?] - Telling Stories (I've seen the title in red from the start. I don't know why. Perhaps a hang-over from my own earliest work - in memory. Red heading, black text. School. Textual landscape describing New York skyline. I now want to to find it to show you. Everything relates, everything links to everything else - a cliche, but true.)
Going Postal
A thought. How to pass the idea of art writing on further than the walls of the exhibition space. Postcards, of course. Necause they are designed to travel distances. It is by this means that my writing may escape the confines of the specified space of the gallery.
Challenge: Size. Postcards aren't very big (even the slightly bigger than normal ones). Therefore I shall need to decide on the best way to maximise the space without compromising visual value - for I am considering the possibilities of writing as creative (art) practice.
A thought (pt.2). Handwrite the piece.
Reasoning: The artists exhibiting shall be displaying something of their 'self'. And of the transformation that takes place between the earlier (younger) self, and the present self. To wrote by hand (at least for me) is to present something of my own 'private' self. I don't like my own handwriting for a start. To me it represents a weakness.
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Challenge: Size. Postcards aren't very big (even the slightly bigger than normal ones). Therefore I shall need to decide on the best way to maximise the space without compromising visual value - for I am considering the possibilities of writing as creative (art) practice.
A thought (pt.2). Handwrite the piece.
Reasoning: The artists exhibiting shall be displaying something of their 'self'. And of the transformation that takes place between the earlier (younger) self, and the present self. To wrote by hand (at least for me) is to present something of my own 'private' self. I don't like my own handwriting for a start. To me it represents a weakness.
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(Art)Writing Welcome
So, here is a blog dedicated to the practice(s) of art writing. The beginnings of this weblog relate to a project in which I am currently involved which concerns the very processes of writing about art. The idea is to trace that process from beginning (concept - thoughts - ideas - words) to end (text - display - dispersal).
The piece is to be displayed to complement (or as part of) an exhibition of artists working as lecturers at Plymouth College of Art. Each artist is showing two works; one from their degree show, and one current piece of work. My job as a writer is (traditionally and, it seems, in this case, to contextualise and interpret the work on show).
My interests in this case are twofold: 1st - How does one provide interpretation of works which span such a period of time (and often space), particularly in the context of a critical 'crisis of meaning'. 2nd - To what extent can (will/could/should) my work as a writer be considered a creative act and, perhaps, should I (as writer/artist) feel part of (rather than periphery to) the community of artists exhibiting.
The piece is to be displayed to complement (or as part of) an exhibition of artists working as lecturers at Plymouth College of Art. Each artist is showing two works; one from their degree show, and one current piece of work. My job as a writer is (traditionally and, it seems, in this case, to contextualise and interpret the work on show).
My interests in this case are twofold: 1st - How does one provide interpretation of works which span such a period of time (and often space), particularly in the context of a critical 'crisis of meaning'. 2nd - To what extent can (will/could/should) my work as a writer be considered a creative act and, perhaps, should I (as writer/artist) feel part of (rather than periphery to) the community of artists exhibiting.
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