Tagged: Film for an Abandoned Projector

January 3, 2012

Translation for a Recovered Text

Lucy Skaer’s new work Film for an Abandoned Projector is showing–Thursday evenings–at the Lyric Picture House, Armley, Leeds. I was really, really pleased to be able to give a talk about it last Thursday,...

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October 22, 2011

Film for an Abandoned Projector

I’ve been invited to talk about this work on 20 October, in Leeds. I’m nervous already. But the work is wonderful, and will be running as I’m talking…I think..and that’s reassuring. The projector in...

Welcome, and thanks for visiting. The site is about writing, which I most often take to be a technology for "translating" sound to surface, ephemeral event to durable text, embodied to disembodied authority. I know there's a before, after, and "in addition to" as well: there are amazing ancient writing systems, or lines made by electrocardiographs or weather forecasting instruments that count as writing for me as well. And there's the threat of a deference to robotic readers undermining human language as such. I'm optimistic, however.

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