Reflection on digestion

Couch, Amanda (2012) Reflection on digestion. [Book art/Artist's book, Drawing, Exhibition/show, Installation, Performance]

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Creators:

Couch, Amanda

Description/Abstract:

Reflection on Digestion is an epic work. As book, it is nine metres, folded back and forth into an eighteen-page concertina form. Its covers are of undyed calfskin, and its eighteen pages are made of 410 gsm white somerset satin paper relief printed from photo polymer plates.

It is book but it is also performance: 37 hours of performance. The bodily act of the scribe originated the manuscript, which was then transferred and translated through digital and mechanical technologies at UCA Farnham, and the hand-made, to produce an edition of three book works.

More recently, I have undertaken reading lasting from fifteen minutes to four and a half hours in duration, in which I am attempting to navigate the awkward physicality of its nine metres, as well as my scripto continua writing. The writing is not easily legible, the lettering hovers between word and image, content and form. The attempts to decipher the words creates an absurd narrative in which language is, in one moment recognised, the next, just nonsense.

Item Type:

Art/Design Item

Date:

2012

Amanda Couch

Material:

410 gsm white somerset satin paper relief printed from photo polymer plates, undyed calfskin, gold hot foil.

Measurements or Duration:

9m long; performances from fifteen minutes to four and a half hours in duration.

Funders:

UCA

Locations / Venues:

Location

From Date

To Date

Kaleid 2014: Artists Who Do Books, Book Fair, The Art Academy, London

17 July 2014

19 July 2014

The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London

13 September 2013

15 September 2013

'In Other Words' Fringe Arts Bath Visual Arts Festival, Bath

24 May 2013

9 June 2013

Loopart13, Deptford, London

21 March 2013

29 March 2013

Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL.

17 November 2012

Text and Context, English Faculty Library, Cambridge University, Cambridge

4 October 2012

24 October 2012

Additional Information:

Performance Reading Durations:
Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London. 17 November, 2.30pm, 20 minutes in length.
'Loopart13', Deptford, London, 23 March 2013, 1 hour.
'In Other Words' Fringe Arts Bath Visual Arts Festival, Bath, 8 June, 2013, 4 hours, 30 minutes.
'Kaleid 2014: Artists Who Do Books', Book Fair, The Art Academy, London, 17 July, 2014 15 minutes, starting on the hour for 7 hours.

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

body, book, drawing, installation, performance, print, writing

Schools:

School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography

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Depositing User:

Miss Amanda Couch

Date Deposited:

07 Jan 2015 13:13

Last Modified:

04 Mar 2022 04:30

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