DECONSTRUCTING-RECONSTRUCTING I |
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Deconstructing-Reconstructing, close up |
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The words of a language can be frustratingly limiting but at the same time overwhelming. I knitted the words of the English dictionary into a long tube. In this way I controlled, structured and worked with a language which is not my own.
During a period of two years I developed four different ways of presenting this struggle with communicating in a foreign language.
The first version is laying the knitted dictionary out on a 3.8 m long aluminium surfaced table with an inbuilt speaker on one end. Four Word Worlds are spaced out amongst the knitting.
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Deconstructing-Reconstructing I, installation view, 2004 |
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The speaker transmits the sound of my voice reading the word fragments of the knitting, layered five times. The meditative and intermingled character of the sound aims to parallel the physicality of the knitted dictionary.
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Deconstructing-Reconstructing I, detail speaker
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DECONSTRUCTING-RECONSTRUCTING II |
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Deconstructing-Reconstructing II, video stills, show reel at the Showroom Cinema/Sheffield, 2004
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In the second version of Deconstructing-Reconstructing I am using the knitted dictionary in three short silent video clips (30 sec each). The videos are close ups of the knitted English dictionary and word ball and my hands, focusing on a different action each time. The three clips are followed by a concluding three min recording of my voice reading the knitted English dictionary layered five times.
This Triptych was shown interspersed amongst a series of videos by other artists concluding with the sound clip. |
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DECONSTRUCTING-RECONSTRUCTING III |
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Deconstructing-Reconstructing III, Group Exhibtion, Mile End Park, London, 2004 |
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In Deconstructing-Reconstructing III the words of the English dictionary are trying to escape from a one square foot cube, down onto the floor. On the floor there is an inbuilt speaker transmitting my recorded voice reading the word fragments of the knitting. |
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DECONSTRUCTING-RECONSTRUCTING IV |
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| Deconstructing-Reconstructing IV, installation view, group exhibition, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, Sep. 9 – Sep. 23, 2005. |
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Deconstructing-Reconstructing IV is a durational performance/installation. I am knitting the English dictionary live, which gives me a specific space and time to spend with the words, controlling and structuring them.
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Deconstructing-Reconstructing IV, detail
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| The piece is accompanied by the sound of my voice reading the word fragments of the knitting, layered five times. |
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