Documentation of installation and exhibition (top images) by curator Philip Davenport.
My work Close
Reading (C+ D) (see below) was included as part of a new pop-up installation
(curated by derek beaulieu and Phil
Davenport) in Bury Art Museum of works celebrating 10 years of the Text
Festival (and 20 years of curating by Tony Trehy) until September. TOTAL RECALL is a guerilla makeover, an A4 invasion of
reading into the larger narrative of looking. Unlike the street signs outside,
these are not corporate instructions or sales pitches, they are antidotes.
Walls, vitrine, archival box — nary a “book” to be found, but a heap
of language left in memory. TOTAL RECALL
includes work by local, national and international text - based artists and
poets: angela rawlings, Barrie Tullett, Bob Grenier, Carolyn Thompson,
Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Darren Marsh, derek beaulieu, Emma Cocker, Eric
Zboya, Erica Baum, Jaap Blonk, James Davies, Jayne Dyer, Jesse Glass, Karri
Kokko, Kristen Mueller, Lawrence Weiner, Leanne Bridgewater, Liz Collini, Lucy
Harvest Clarke, Marco Giovenale, Márton Koppány, Matt Dalby, Mike
Chavez-Dawson, Paula Claire, Penny Anderson, Peter Jaeger, Phil Davenport,
Rachel Defay-Liautard, Ron Silliman, Satu Kaikkonen, Sarah Sanders, Seekers of
Lice, Steve Emmerson, Steve Giasson, Tom Jenks, and Tony Lopez. The invitation
was to submit an A4 work which in some way addressed the construction of
memory. My work folds together close readings of the writing of Deleuze and
Cixous.
Emma Cocker, Close Reading (C+ D), produced for Total Recall (TEXTfestschrift festival)
Works will also be included in The
Text Art Archive, based at
Bury Art Museum, which was established in March 2013 in conjunction with Bury
Archives Service and the Centre for Poetics at Birkbeck University of London
with the intention of documenting, securing and making easily available
information on the history and practice of Text Art (sometime referred to as
Visual Language Art).