the exhibition will be the first of its kind in the UK, and will show works by a generation of artists who have sought a radical reconsideration of the relationship between literature and the visual arts.
The interest in hypertextuality, combinative engines, and automatic production of texts by computers always appeared obvious for Oulipians - members of The Workshop for Potential Literature - all writers of literatures with constraints. If, at the beginning, they did not have the standard hardware to carry out their projects, they traced the way, proposing examples, assembling specifications, producing working schemes so that these projects could exist potentially.
The Tapeworm Foundry is a single unpunctuated sentence of proposals that lists a variety avant-garde projects linked only by the seemingly innocuous, but progressively more imperative-sounding, "andor."
Experimental works by women that form part of the newly acquired Silverman Fluxus Collection Reference Library. With a focus on artists’ books, event scores, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, and examples of the alternative press, the exhibition includes publications by Alison Knowles, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Yoko Ono, Dorothy Iannone, and others.
Performance 2 represented a sort of culmination of three text-based, visual, conceptual writing projects that developed within the gallery space, all with the input of visitors.
Not Content is a series of text projects curated by Les Figues Press at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Not Content investigates the ways in which language functions within public and private spheres and within the tenuous and transitory space between these real and imagined realms.
Perhaps it's time to turn experimental: in The Observer 'William Skidelsky looks at the 'resurgence of literary experimentation', in Experimental fiction: is it making a comeback ?
From the most academic electoacoustics to industrial music, from radiophonic art to post-no-wave improvisation, AVANT retraces some of the key moments of the Spain's musical avant-garde, scarcely documented until now.
The book is based on the work of OULIPO, a group of writers and mathematicians who believe that constraints lead to greater creativity. The authors took the traditional tale Cinderella, and re-wrote it, in half a hundred ways…as a lipogram –without the letter ‘O’; a haiku, a recipe, a blog, a limerick, a letter of complaint …. and 43 other versions. The book illustrates the different ways language and form can bring fresh new approaches to the same story ingredients.
‘The staggering number of creative-class 20-year-olds on the L train with full-sleeve tattoos should have indicated to us that we’d finally, inevitably, overextended ourselves.’
Jason Murison, ‘Black Bleeds Red: On the Art Market’s Nervous Breakdown’, Paper Monument, issue three, 2010
This essay is a rumination on the sources of creativity—where and how do writers, artists, musicians, creators in all media find the spark of inspiration?
Art and Text is about conceptual art. It covers works that include some text, are made up of text, or are text. The subject of these works is often the intersection of art, philosophy, and linguistics. While a few older works are shown, the focus of the book is 1960–2008 with most of the work from the latter decades.
behold the Voynich Manuscript, a puzzling artifact from the late fifteenth century written by an unknown author, in an unidentified script, in an unknown language. Since 1912, cryptographers, palaeographers, and others with time on their hands have failed to decipher this mysterious document; naturally one theory is that it's a monstrous hoax, though its text seems to bear the hallmarks of a genuine language
