Burgoyne, Greig (2018) CELUI QUI NE M'ACCOMPAGNAIT PAS. [Drawing, Exhibition/show, Installation, Performance, Site-specific work, Sound art, Video]
Creators: | Burgoyne, Greig |
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Description/Abstract: | The capitalist notion of ‘flat time’ is a schematic, routine and ordered time/space we are so familiar with, so much so we don’t even notice it. This project asks if it is possible to evade this container for our perception, and experience a simultaneous time and space by the very act of paradoxically intensifying its logic. French theorist De Certeau in his book ‘The practice of everyday life’ spoke of walking as a metaphor of writing, where we write a text but are unable to read it as we don’t stop and turn around… The resulting project is three works, each directly and indirectly combining walking without preplanning where we are going, alongside an experience of sound derived from editing books. The first of three works that make this project is a wall text work in vinyl, that is the result of combining the first line of the in the first book and last line, on the last page of the last book from each subject area in the entire library collection. When placed in a grid matrix an ordered disorder that is less words but more sounds-phonics. As opposed to visualising as we often do when reading, Burgoyne seeks to draw our attention to the pure sounds before they become words and stories. In this way the wall work is a a drawing of sound as letters. Combined with the respective page numbers these lines occurred on, when transcribed to footsteps to walk, become the live performance to be given on the opening night of the show, where Burgoyne utters the sounds of the books, while walking both in and outside the library space as the footsteps walked orientate that journey that results. You are invited to follow him as he walks. In this he seeks to release words from order and containment and liberate them in space and time. The conclusion of this event is a sound recording to listen to while walking in and around the library oneself. The recording combines the spoken sounds of the wall text, and a recorded walk taking in the circumference of the town itself, textures, sound and space meet a parallel space of sounds uttered and dispersed, as a mobile sense of space as breath. The recording can be listened to, on the various headsets placed in and around the library site. The project is complimented by a series of incidental works, that explore the notion of the site being outside ones immediate sense of time and space. These actions result in modest works made of A4 paper and brown tape such as 'bookworm' indicative of the measurement of unrolling tape and re rolling in relation to walking the library space. These extend to the residual elements such as the bank card used to rub the vinyl onto the wall, that appear book-like at its demise. Finally, situated in the large cabinet as one enters the Médiathèque, is a series of digital prints representing the empty spaces between books. Images of empty shelves on paradoxically empty shelves. Filling an empty spaces with images Burgoyne sees as materially physical- yet potentially devoid or liberated of content. |
Item Type: | Art/Design Item |
Official URL: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps9GQbu22sc&featur... |
Date: | 27 September 2018 |
Copyright Holders: | Greig Burgoyne |
Material: | body, text, wall vinyl, paper |
Measurements or Duration: | variable |
Funders: | Ministry of Culture France, Arts Council England |
Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Médiathèque Du Moulle, Haut de France, France 27 September 2018 10 November 2018 |
Uncontrolled Keywords or tags : | drawing, space, performance, duration, spoken word, sound, accumulation, repetition, french, language, différance, difference, logic, rules, defer, moulle, e... |
Schools: | School of Fine Art & Photography |
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Depositing User: |
Mr Greig Burgoyne
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Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2019 14:03 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2019 14:03 |
URI: | https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5282 |
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