#georgecullen

MARK COCKRAM LES BICKNELL RICCARDO BOGLIONE MICHELLE BROWN PAUL COLDWELL ALI VAN DAM JANINE HARRINGTON SUSAN JOHANKNECHT SHARON KIVLAND PAULINE LAMONT-FISHER RICHARD PRICE STEVIE RONNIE ERIN K. SCHMIDT ABI THOMAS

Thank you! We are finalising the design.

http://collectiveinvestigations.tumblr.com/book

"If you describe something, it's dead, it's over. I think what we try to do is to do things that can't really be described, that can't be captured" (John Baldessari in Again the Metaphor Problem)

We had an uber-productive day, large part of which was spent working with texts: creating texts, moving texts, editing texts. Among them, was (still is) the one where we had to produce a description of the project for another publication. How easy and how difficult it can  be! We know the concept and we know the ingredient parts of the process. We know the composite parts of the book and the exhibition. We have the workshops planned. We have the readings and the listenings and other sources of research. And then we have the creative process, which often starts in a very orderly manner, before it diverts thorough the unpredictable into the inexplicable. Uh, the creative process...

So how do you write about your own work without reducing it to a set of semantic primitives? How do you translate into words a portrait (of the book) into 300 words maintaining intended fluidity of meaning? Can you?

Ideas for work have bubbling in the background.  The trip to the bookshop was excellent as it made us all very keen to respond specifically to the space.

Here marks the start of a joint project between Egidia Čiricaitė, George Cullen and Chris Gibson. The project will be exploring codex as a 3D time-based fine arts form culminating in an exhibition and workshops at the Bookartbookshop 04/19-05/04 and various libraries around London. This blog will act as a document of the project as it evolves.

(George)

    Supported by the Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk