{"id":634,"date":"2015-09-15T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-09-16T07:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T20:49:49","slug":"word-and-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/word-and-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Word and Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following are some notes for guest lecture for UOW subject &#8220;Word and Image&#8221;, September 16 2015.<\/p>\n<p><em>Well-known works of experimental film and sound art:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Snow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8i6H1KDJ9Ic\">So is This<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; film consisting entirely of words on screen, one word at a time. Temporal spacing of words creates drama and &#8220;characterisation&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hollis Frampton, <a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.com\/film\/frampton_zorns.html\">Zorn&#8217;s Lemma<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;found typography&#8221; alphabet progressively replaced by moving image substitutions. Duration more than an hour! A form of brain training?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Sharits, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x22vmtj_fluxfilm-29-paul-sharits-word-movie-1966_shortfilms\">Word Movie<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; simultaneous heard-words, and seen-words. How do we process this information?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alvin Lucier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/sound\/lucier.html\">I am sitting in a room<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; words begin as information, progressively decay to reveal the resonant frequency of the room (music?).<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Smith, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/120689555\">The Girl Chewing Gum<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; \u201cIn The Girl Chewing Gum a commanding voice over appears to direct the action in a busy London street. As the instructions become more absurd and fantasised, we realise that the supposed director (not the shot) is fictional; he only describes \u2013 not prescribes \u2013 the events that take place before him. (quote from A.L. Rees, A Directory of British Film &#038; Video Artists, 1995)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Text-dependent artworks:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joseph Kosuth, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/81435\">One and Three Chairs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Vito Acconci, <a href=\"http:\/\/infinityskitchen.com\/the-experimental-literature-cook-off\/\">Read this word<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Barry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/article_image\/image\/14965\/All_the_things_I_know.jpg\">All of the things I know&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Book on text and art:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Liz Kotz, <a href=\"https:\/\/textinart.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/kotz_1.pdf\">Words to be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Some of my own projects which use words:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lucasihlein.net\/Bilateral-Petersham\"><strong>Bilateral Petersham<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; blog which embodies the experiences of 2 months of being &#8220;artist in residence in my own suburb&#8221; &#8211; approx 80,000 words. Presented in gallery exhibition as long bench with pages printed out, visitors assemble own book.<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lucasihlein.net\/Yeomans-Projectf\"><strong>Yeomans Project<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; project investigating agriculture in Australia. Blog stories from experiences 2011-13 edited and published as a newspaper. Prints in gallery contain text as mneumonic\/didactic devices.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/projects\/shelve\/\"><strong>SHELVE<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; made out of wood, hand cut with jigsaw.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lucasihlein.net\/Environmental-Audit\"><strong>Environmental Audit<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; words in conversations with museum staff and visitors become content for blog storytelling. Complex relationships mapped out in diagrammatic form, as prints and on blackboards.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lucasihlein.net\/Event-for-Touristic-Sites\"><strong>Event for Touristic Sites<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; national stereotypes stencilled onto white t-shirts. Interactions with tourists in touristic sites. Tourists choose a shirt and pose for a photo. Discussions with participants about &#8216;veracity&#8217; of the various stereotypes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lucasihlein.net\/Printmaking\"><strong>Various one-off prints using text:<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBundanon Print (The Feral Amongst Us); The Underground; Adelaide Garbage Map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;.<br \/>\nalso &#8211; Gysin and Burroughs&#8217; cut ups; Lauren Brown&#8217;s listening lists; Adrien Piper&#8217;s text-cards for social events; Carolee Schneeman&#8217;s Interior Scroll; FLUXUS artists&#8217; use of the &#8220;event-score&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are some notes for guest lecture for UOW subject &#8220;Word and Image&#8221;, September 16 2015. Well-known works of experimental film and sound art: Michael Snow, So is This &#8211; film consisting entirely of words on screen, one word at a time. Temporal spacing of words creates drama and &#8220;characterisation&#8221;. 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