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Erasing Mallarmé's Throw of the dice.
Only leaving Phantoms of a gesture: corrections. (Request PDF if you dare)
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Showing posts with label Erasure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erasure. Show all posts
Tulio Herrera and Bustos Domecq - WHAT'S NOT
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"What's missing hurts not" once said Bustos Domecq.
So here is another erasure work or another way of shortening Vladimir Nabokov.
Carving out all foreign bodies contained in Nabokov's shorts stories and turning these into a polyglossic poem. (Request PDF if you dare)
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Erased Oscar Wilde (Dorian Gray's Chapter 9)
Based on a suggestion provided by The Found Poetry Review
More erasure poems from Dorian Gray on Ultrazswound.
Erasure / Erosion: BARTLEBITS
Bartlebits is about erased sections in books. Most of these are not just corrections but actual deletions, wanted or unwanted. Throughout the various chapters, you will recognise some famous figures or familiar writings. These words, however, have been for some reason taken out and omitted from the original works.
At the end of Bartlebits, sources and links can be found.
Why call this Bartlebits? Maybe because we are dealing here with dead letters. Maybe…
Note that this is a work in progress, in other words a black hole in expansion. Bartlebits is part of our Crashtest series.
READ: HERE
Erasure - The Deletionist
The DELETIONIST
Erasure - The Commissar vanishes
"Like their counterparts in Hollywood, photographic retouchers in Soviet Russia spent long hours smoothing out the blemishes of imperfect complexions, helping the camera to falsify reality. Joseph Stalin's pockmarked face, in particular, demanded exceptional skills with the airbrush. But it was during the Great Purges, which raged in the late 1930s, that a new form of falsification emerged. The physical eradication of Stalin's political opponents at the hands of the secret police was swiftly followed by their obliteration from all forms of pictorial existence.
Photographs for publication were retouched and restructured with airbrush and scalpel to make once famous personalities vanish. Paintings, too, were often withdrawn from museums and art galleries so that compromising faces could be blocked out of group portraits. Entire editions of works by denounced politicians and writers were banished to the closed sections of the state libraries and archives or simply destroyed."
The Commissar VanishesThe Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
By DAVID KINGMetropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company
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The exhibition at the Gulag Museum.
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Other famous altered images in the former Soviet Union.
Erasure projects: Garfield minus Garfield
Garfield minus Garfield
[Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb. ]
Erasure Projects - Erasure in Art by Richard Galpin
[Joseph Kosuth, Zero and Not]
Erasure in Art, Destruction, Deconstruction and Palimpset by Richard Galpin "Introduction. My interest in erasure stems from my work as an artist. I am involved in work that deletes various texts, and am excited by the subtle play that erasure seems to create when executed in certain ways. My work is not about the suppression of text, or the negation of what the text represents, but is about obscuring the words in order to create a different relationship between the text and the viewer. When I first started this body of work I felt that the erasure of language in art, rather than being destructive, contained the potential to provoke an ambiguous and shifting reading of both the original text and the work. If not destructive then, could erasure be deconstructive? This is something that I will explore in this writing. I will then discuss the notion of the palimpsest as a concept that seems relevant to erasure in art."
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More about Erasure, see index under Erasure section.
Erasure projects: Robert Rauschenberg - Erased De Kooning
"Ambiguïté du rôle joué par De Kooning: père à tuer ou sponsor contraint. [...] L'absence n'y joue pas le rôle de principe, n'engage aucun jugement de valeur susceptible de constituer un modèle. S'il devait néanmoins s'agir d'un principe, ce serait en son sens premier d'élément constituant, c'est-à-dire d'origine. Le choix de l'absence ne désigne pas tant, ici, l'aire morale et esthétique de l'oeuvre à venir que la tabula rasa nécessaire et insuffisante du premier élan et des intuitions du jeune artiste" (Jean-Yves Jouannais, Artistes sans oeuvres, Verticales, p.171)
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"I was no threat"
A Brief History of Erasure Poetics -Travis Macdonald
A Brief History of Erasure Poetics by Travis Macdonald (Jacket Magazine)
"The poetry of erasure is taking place all around us. Underneath the pavement, behind newspaper headlines, on paste-layered billboards and graffiti-laden walls, our communal landscape is continuously peeling away and papering over itself. Its very surface is a living thing in flux between the dueling processes of decay and renewal, driven in the name of progress to adapt to the shifting contextual demands of culture or be replaced, removed, re-imagined. While this process can, at times, be artificially postponed, nothing escapes its effects forever. This world demands of its denizens a constant and vigilant revision of form."
Erasure Projects - Michalis Pichler: Un coup de dés
UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N‘ABOLIRA LE HASARD (sculpture)
Comment by Michalis Pichler:
"Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance) is a book by Michalis Pichler published 2008/09 in Berlin. The work is a close copy of the 1914 edition of the french symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of the same name, but with all the words cut out by laser, in a way that corresponds directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé to articulate the text*.A Preface features the entire poem written as a block of text with each line separated by a slash (/). This block-transcription of the Mallarme-Text was carried out in 1969 by Broodthaers. 12 double spreads follow, with immaculately cut out windows standing in for the text. When turning the pages, numerous shadows are being generated by the cutouts.
The work is soft bound and feels quite insubstantial. The cover is a facsimile of the original cover as published in 1914 by Librairie Gallimard, with the word 'SCULPTURE' replacing 'POEME' (or 'IMAGE') in the centre of the design.
500 copies are produced on paper, 90 on translucent paper and 10 on acrylic glass plates.
Historical note:
* Mallarmé had written the poem in 1897, also saw it published in a magazine called Cosmopolis, but left copious notes as to how it should be typeset, instructions that were finally carried out 16 years after his death, in 1914.
In 1969 this work was appropriated by notorious Marcel Broodthaers, who replaced the words by black stripes. He replaced the classification 'POEME' on the cover by the word 'IMAGE'."
Erasure Projects - Linda Ellia's fight against Mein Kampf
A few years ago Linda Ellia launched "Our Fight" a project in which she asked each participant to "work" on one page of Hitler's Mein Kampf.
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What Linda Ellia said on this project:"One evening I had the idea of inviting people from all conditions and walks of life to participate in producing a collective work. I would cut out and distribute each of the 600 hundred pages of the book [Mein Kampf] randomly, or to people of my choice. These 600 contributors would represent the deaths of over 6 million deportees.The objective is to express on each page the emotion it evokes. Together we will recreate the book. It will become « Our Combat » "
"Every page returned to me provokes a profound emotion. Together we will experience a new reading of the pages we have rewritten. Do not hesitate to contact me to react, or to participate in this project. I am interested in all of your ideas.This combat is not an isolated act. I intend to follow it up by creating an association for artists involved in defending causes. It will address all forms of artistic disciplines. A Laureate will be elected each year. The role of this award will be to help engaged artists realize their projects."
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See the project's site: NOTRE COMBAT.
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The range of techniques and approaches used in this project is quite amazing (considering that many of the participants were not artists). Erasing, tearing, stitching, drawing, pasting, combining, hiding, inserting and many other techniques were used to reveal or deny, to condemn or recall. Many of these awesome visions are clearly fighting the ghost which is creeping through these lines, by tearing apart these words, transcending them. Some of the works just show the scars, the wounds while others depict the dreams of a better, safer world. *******************************************
More about Erasure Projects.
More about the words of the Third Reich.
Erasure Projects - erased projections
** The O Mission Repo by Travis Macdonald: another recent shadow filled with traumatic calls, with synchronic light about a subject as legal as old letters found in memories (source text: The 9/11 Commission Report)
**The ms of m y kin by Janet Holmes: The idea is that the page is a delicious coincidence: two words must reflect the speakers and my luminescent intention behind them, in Iraq (source text: "The Poems of Emily Dickinson")
**Radi Os by Ronald Johnson: If you teach Lost excision with an elegant constellation, the first fruit of that forbidden death is quite a revision! There's nothing greater about the chosen rose out of Chaos. Think of it as the latent argument of my vision and order the universe now comparing with the originals from Lost versions that I don't remember or, if you like, you could call it a home (source text: Milton's Paradise Lost).
**A Humument by Tom Phillips: Like most angels in a withdrawn and humourless mood, the verbal disposition of the landscape, if occasionally tortuous, was first divided into an earthy sound and an attempt to fall in love with a pale Requiem: after interlude. Yet a new quest started. As a result of some kind of impulse this slow being was not unaware of the need to be a reasonable example of massive deconstruction: in a sense, the world exists in order to end (source text: A Human Document by W.H. Mallock).
**[where late the sweet] BIRDS SANG by Stephen Ratcliffe: As opposed to meaning itself, all traces of negative echoes, hidden within, suggest the absence of dividends, demanding a framework for dramatization. In this sense, we can begin to lament — we can mutate and derive meaning from a comparison between fruitless separation and my present feeling (source text: Shakespeare’s Sonnets).
**The Tibetan Stroboscope by d.a. levy: Apparently the opening of the book was not part of the aesthetic of this culture but for now this somewhat sloppy avoidance integrated a strong sense of the necessity of mutual destruction. This emphasizes a more intense and more urgent elitism.
**Nets by Jen Bervin: Upon first glance, protean indeterminacy depends upon a Humument perspective, from pole to pole. Through the golden eye refashioning apotheosis, playful images suggest a rubbing from an old RADI OS perpetually tracing The Fiction of light. At least one weakness engenders a startling effect of culmination beyond pleasure and life (source text: Shakespeare’s Sonnets).
**Thus & by Derek Henderson: The following contraction is conspicuous by its presence devoted to quiet announcement While many of the missing fascinations include the arrival of possessive forms. Given that only silent dwarfs draw the reader’s attention, we see that supple changes escape the patternless pattern of appropriation / renunciation (source text: Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets).
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And also:
**Al Hitman's Eaves of Ass (after Whitman)
**Austin Kleon's Newspaper Blackout Poems
**Dan Waber's collective Altered Books
**And in French F. Serra's Lierre (after Lacan's Lituraterre) etc.
Zardoz, another famous reference to erased literature.
And within the realm of comics, Jochen Gerner's TNT (after Hergé's Tintin en Amérique)
**The ms of m y kin by Janet Holmes: The idea is that the page is a delicious coincidence: two words must reflect the speakers and my luminescent intention behind them, in Iraq (source text: "The Poems of Emily Dickinson")
**Radi Os by Ronald Johnson: If you teach Lost excision with an elegant constellation, the first fruit of that forbidden death is quite a revision! There's nothing greater about the chosen rose out of Chaos. Think of it as the latent argument of my vision and order the universe now comparing with the originals from Lost versions that I don't remember or, if you like, you could call it a home (source text: Milton's Paradise Lost).
**A Humument by Tom Phillips: Like most angels in a withdrawn and humourless mood, the verbal disposition of the landscape, if occasionally tortuous, was first divided into an earthy sound and an attempt to fall in love with a pale Requiem: after interlude. Yet a new quest started. As a result of some kind of impulse this slow being was not unaware of the need to be a reasonable example of massive deconstruction: in a sense, the world exists in order to end (source text: A Human Document by W.H. Mallock).
**[where late the sweet] BIRDS SANG by Stephen Ratcliffe: As opposed to meaning itself, all traces of negative echoes, hidden within, suggest the absence of dividends, demanding a framework for dramatization. In this sense, we can begin to lament — we can mutate and derive meaning from a comparison between fruitless separation and my present feeling (source text: Shakespeare’s Sonnets).
**The Tibetan Stroboscope by d.a. levy: Apparently the opening of the book was not part of the aesthetic of this culture but for now this somewhat sloppy avoidance integrated a strong sense of the necessity of mutual destruction. This emphasizes a more intense and more urgent elitism.
**Nets by Jen Bervin: Upon first glance, protean indeterminacy depends upon a Humument perspective, from pole to pole. Through the golden eye refashioning apotheosis, playful images suggest a rubbing from an old RADI OS perpetually tracing The Fiction of light. At least one weakness engenders a startling effect of culmination beyond pleasure and life (source text: Shakespeare’s Sonnets).
**Thus & by Derek Henderson: The following contraction is conspicuous by its presence devoted to quiet announcement While many of the missing fascinations include the arrival of possessive forms. Given that only silent dwarfs draw the reader’s attention, we see that supple changes escape the patternless pattern of appropriation / renunciation (source text: Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets).
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And also:
**Al Hitman's Eaves of Ass (after Whitman)
**Austin Kleon's Newspaper Blackout Poems
**Dan Waber's collective Altered Books
**And in French F. Serra's Lierre (after Lacan's Lituraterre) etc.
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Zardoz, another famous reference to erased literature.
And within the realm of comics, Jochen Gerner's TNT (after Hergé's Tintin en Amérique)
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