Guerrilla Zoo, Corsica Arts Centre, Elephant and Castle, Friday 22nd April,
6pm-2am
As part of the Guerrilla Zoo event, the Tex Tartists are going to have a
conversation. We’ll be in the gallery between 7:30-8:30, close to the bar.
Do feel free to join us.
So what’s the conversation about?
Well it isn’t about anything. It’s just a part of the event.
What’s the point of that?
Well the words we hear, say or think tonight are an important part of the
event: they are part of the party, art, music, films and performances. Often
when we create text about our engagements in art or activism this is a
process that starts only after the art or activist work is completed for
example; a catalogue essay, a review, a theoretical essay, a history, or a
conversation after the film or protest. This meta-texting judges,
classifies, documents, legitimates and authenticates. It re-interprets and
re-organises.
In other words it’s the creation of an entirely other event.
So if text is an event, an action, (which we call ‘texting’) we thought, why
not have a conversation-event? Let’s create text that gets caught up in the
event, that is part of the event. It won’t be easy. You might interrupt us,
for a start. We might run out of words, get distracted by the noise. We’ll
no doubt break from the conversation to go to the bar, or to the loo.
Creating text about an event while you’re in it is a totally different
text-game. This is the way we propose to play it.
Conversation-events
Firstly we’ve asked you to join us in an attempt to extend the
conversation-event. Also, before we start we’ll ask 10 people to write or
text us the words they are hearing, thinking or speaking at the same time as
our conversation is taking place. These fellow tex-tartists may be
participating in our conversation, they may be watching a film, or they may
be thinking about something else entirely. In this way, voices other than
our own will become part of the conversation-event, in a connection to other
‘textings’ happening simultaneously to ours.
We’ve also created a few questions to guide our conversation. We’d welcome
your ideas on them which we will feed into our conversation on the night.
How is text creation a political action?
What is the relationship between the ‘aboutness’ of text and the ‘eventness’
of text?
Does “aboutness” dominate text produced in isolation from events?
If so, what are the limitations of this dominant ‘texting’ mode?
What are the implications of considering ‘texting’ as a social event?
Please do contribute your ideas and comments to our little experiment. We’ll
send you some ‘e-texting’ from the event in a form we’ll decide on the
night.
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