In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back)

Nightfall. Between day and night. In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back), (2024), is a cross-media artwork (print, performance, photography) that invites you to scramble tongues and reorientate your body.

Two parts of printed matter; an invitation and prologue are distributed by the artist. The Invitation contains instructions to a participate in a land based performance. The Prologue is a poem printed on a large sheet of paper, that is unfolded and activated through the performance. Held by the uneven surface of the forest floor. The poem is sounded out, using voices as instruments by the performer/s. Turning the paper over, performers write out resonant words or phrases using charcoal. Writing over and over. Until words are obliterated and a cacophony of new meaning may form.  Photographs of each scrambling performance are accumulated forming part of the work.

This work values liminal places, and questions the distance of inter-connection between language and meaning, and the peripheries between living beings. The title of the work borrows from writer Karl Kraus who wrote the aphorism from his book Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976) which has been translated to "The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back."

In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back): Prologue (2024).
A0 80gsm paper, folded.

In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back): Invitation (2024).
A5 double sided riso print.

In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back): Invitation (2024).
A5 double sided riso print.