Redaction Part 2
In the War of Words, removing a word can be as potent as adding one. Consider Paula Gaetano Adi’s video documentation of her ongoing performance Pica (on view in War of Words). She calls the performance “an attempt to embody a non-native language.” In this case, the word embody is used quite literally. Each […]
Redaction
Redaction looms large in the War of Words. Words are ingested, negated, excised, crossed out, sliced and melted. It’s not as though we set out to do this, it just happened to work out that way. Interesting. Over the next few posts I’d like to explore this idea a bit by sharing with you some […]
Out there (1)
Out there: in which we dig up War of Words related works. Exactly! (More or less.) Found at melbochner.net —Diane
War of Words: Welcome
Welcome Proteoscope readers and users of words. For the duration of War of Words, I’ll be posting a series of ideas and images related to some of the questions that “triggered” this exhibition… Why is the language of war so prevalent in our everyday conversation? How does language represent thought? Are we hard-wired to understand […]
