Section G: Research Process 1: Expanded Writing & Reading

Research Process: 1

Research Process 1: EXPANDED WRITING & READING

Research Imperative: To develop and extend forms of reading and writing through experimentation with physical, material, spatial and sonic approaches to text.

This experimentation took the form of translation from text to texture that offered physical and material 'readings' and 'writings' of conceptual and theoretical fields. The exploration into these processes of translation led to the development of an expanded language that speaks with a visual vocabulary and spatial grammar of materials, actions, mark-making, objects, body, maps, diagrams, sound, space and time.

These experiments in Expanded Writing & Reading are organized under the following headings:

Reading Room Lexicons
The Room as Book
Letters as Objects
Reading the Garment
Prepared Vinyl
Wild (w)Ri[gh]ting
The Toxic ‘T’

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Reading Room Lexicons

Reading Room Lexicons

A specific vocabulary of materials was developed for each Reading Room. These units of language were used to re-write the books in expanded and transformed ways.

the Room as Book

the Room as Book

The room being read as a book, with walls as pages, tables as chapters and floors as footnotes.

Letters as Objects

Letters as Objects

3-D letters function as independent objects, as symbols to denote spatial significance & as markers for specific roles within each Reading Room event.

Reading the Garment

Reading the Garment

The garment becomes a physical, visual and material manifestation of the thematics of the book; a body that can be read.

Prepared Vinyl

Prepared Vinyl

In RR_03 the female bee-ing performers ‘prepare’ vinyl in the hive. Using bee materials, they ‘write’ a new translation of Maeterlinck’s book, The Life of the Bee, onto the discs. These vinyl ‘books’ are then ‘read’ by the bee’s finger styluses on the turntables.

Wild (w)Ri[gh]ting

Wild (w)Ri[gh]ting

Three modes of wild writing are identified at work across the three Reading Rooms:

Writing – Rite-ing – Righting

The Toxic ‘T’

The Toxic ‘T’

In RR_03, in front of the hive, is the golden toxic ‘T(rump)’ tower. Through the event the two performer female bee-ings apply apian medications to the ‘T’ neutralizing its toxicity + healing its hurt.