My contribution to PRACTICE SHARING IIis published on the research catalogue, under the keywords accidence/homophone/internal voice/intonation/morphological modifications.
This ‘sharing’ of language-based artistic research practices is the second online presentation by the Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research (Society for Artistic Research), featuring over 60 individuals and collaborations, co-edited by Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin.
Images:
Left: Yorgos Maraziotis, Tell Me, documentation of language-based sculptures in three different areas in the city of Patras (GR). Middle: Kate Fahey, Mouthnotes (installation image), single channel moving image with stereo sound, (2022). Right: rosie heinrich with An_assembling_“I”, Ancient conversations, work-in-process, (2023).
Apostrophe Plural is published in proceedings of CARPA 7: Elastic Writing in Artistic Research.
I understand the internal reading voice, which sounds words silently, as a performer. This performer, I suggest, has the capacity to hold the projective and retroactive movement of syntactical reorganisation that the misplaced apostrophe intonates.
Accidence, a five minute radio work, will air on Radiophrenia, Thursday 10th February 8am-9am as part of Shorts 4.
‘Accidence’ is a linguistic term, describing how the structures of
tense, person and number change the shape of words. This piece for
voice, and accompanying cracks and claps, works on accidence as a
grammatical encoding of its homophone ‘accidents’ and on accidents’
connoted violence.
Accidence was
commissioned by Book Works, for The Happy Hypocrite – Without Reduction,
issue 12, 2021, edited by Maria Fusco and originally broadcast 25
September 2021 by Book Works and Resonance Extra.
Contributors to both the print issue and radio broadcast are: Maria
Fusco; Mohamed Abdelkarim; Andreia Afonso; Leila Al-Yousuf; Alison
Ballance; Jordan Baseman; Ohad Ben Shimon; Claire Biddles, Nastya
Nikolskaya and Mathew Wayne Parkin; Oisin Byrne; Julia Calver; Anna
Chapman Parker; Jesse Darling; Daphne de Sonneville; Seán Elder; Seb
Emina; Tim Etchells; Carl Gent; Dale Holmes; Adrien Howard and K
Patrick; Agnė Jokšė; Sophie Jung; Sumaya Kassim; Rebecca La Marre; Amy
Lam; Mohamedali Ltaief; Robert Herbert McClean; Chris McCormack; Susana
Medina and Roc Sandford; Joseph Noonan-Ganley; Jaakko Pallasvuo; Joanna
Walsh; Siân Williams and Kelly Best.
New writing, Complaint, in Setting A Bell Ringing: After an Unmaster Class with Anne Boyer published by
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE.
This book is a demonstrative work of unmastery in response to the session of February 24, 1979, ‘Setting a Bell Ringing’, in _The Preparation of the Novel. _It is equally a response to an unmaster class with Anne Boyer, a séance convened by the Roland Barthes Reading Group as part of the symposium Poetics in Commons,
convened by Sarah Bernstein and Daniel Eltringham, at the University of
Sheffield in May 2019. The symposium explored the potential of
literature and art to produce and reinvent shared spaces, ways of
living, and forms of social and ecological cooperation.
‘Ah, this book! Here, at last, I feel like I have found my
people: an unlikely group of reader-writers reading and writing for very
different reasons, their heads in different places, their bodies
responding to quite different ideas, questions, details. All of them
reading—or sometimes not reading, but sitting for a time together with,
then writing with or out or away from—Roland Barthes’s notes for a
session of his last lecture course. Their short pieces of responsive
writing deal variously, precisely, and movingly with aging, bafflement,
boredom, grieving, listening, new life, and responsibility—with the
brief, sharp, and the longer, sometimes duller forms of experience. To
my ear, each one strikes newly at the lecture course; together, they
make the whole thing resound.’ Kate Briggs
The Roland Barthes Reading Group for this book is Emma
Bolland, Julia Calver, Daniela Cascella, Louise Finney, Susannah Gent,
Sharon Kivland, Debbie Michaels, Hestia Peppé, Rachel Smith, with our
guest, Jennifer Clarke.
Presenting the paper Apostrophe Plural at CARPA 7 conference: Elastic Writing in Artistic Research 25-28 August,
Performing Arts Research Centre, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.
The Elastic Writing conference explores extended forms of writing that critically substantiate the
aesthetic and creative features and diverse knowledges involved in
artistic research.
Apostrophe Plural
investigates
how the experimental re-distribution of apostrophes in the sentence in English
disrupts the allocation of grammatical agency.
