KALDRON 17 and 20
Commentary: Liz Collini
restlessness; white and black; the whiteness of space; flickering on a screen; travelling from side to side; travelling up and down; codebreaking? (maybe I’m invited in; maybe not); brilliance; play; manipulation; resolution; unresolvability; resolution may be withheld; resolution may break down; pattern; the absence of pattern; shifting constructs; (restlessness); the suggestion of a page; the absence of a page; a newly constituted page; fuzziness; some instant gratification in an alphabet; the space between the texts and me; (what is the nature of this space and where are these things?); steampunk/surrealist/penny dreadful temptation; detail withheld (infans); flashes of sheer unadulterated gorgeousness; book spines that are not book spines; dissembling; how many screens have these texts passed through to get here? (the letters translucently arranged); the joy of floating with a little gloved hand; h/over; there is (in fact) some terrorism for the literate (infans); immateriality; there is material; the material is material; diving into the reading/looking place; peering; squinting; undoing your eyes; letting your eyes fall where they will; desire; the frustration of the glass divide; the lack of touch; the feel of plastic; the touch as a tap; the body in space; the ergonomics of seeing; the space in the skull plus the holes in the skull; the stuff outside; the stuff behind the glass; the stuff in space
gather/collect/accumulate/group/cluster
arrange(arraign)/display/organise/present/curate
Commentary: Liz Collini
restlessness; white and black; the whiteness of space; flickering on a screen; travelling from side to side; travelling up and down; codebreaking? (maybe I’m invited in; maybe not); brilliance; play; manipulation; resolution; unresolvability; resolution may be withheld; resolution may break down; pattern; the absence of pattern; shifting constructs; (restlessness); the suggestion of a page; the absence of a page; a newly constituted page; fuzziness; some instant gratification in an alphabet; the space between the texts and me; (what is the nature of this space and where are these things?); steampunk/surrealist/penny dreadful temptation; detail withheld (infans); flashes of sheer unadulterated gorgeousness; book spines that are not book spines; dissembling; how many screens have these texts passed through to get here? (the letters translucently arranged); the joy of floating with a little gloved hand; h/over; there is (in fact) some terrorism for the literate (infans); immateriality; there is material; the material is material; diving into the reading/looking place; peering; squinting; undoing your eyes; letting your eyes fall where they will; desire; the frustration of the glass divide; the lack of touch; the feel of plastic; the touch as a tap; the body in space; the ergonomics of seeing; the space in the skull plus the holes in the skull; the stuff outside; the stuff behind the glass; the stuff in space
gather/collect/accumulate/group/cluster
arrange(arraign)/display/organise/present/curate
disperse/spread/disassemble/scatter
regroup
kaldron 17 showcased Americans Pauls Hocks, a visual text artist, and visual poets Scott Helmes and Loris Essary.
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