THE DELETIONIST

This website is incredible! You put it in your bookmarks, open any page and it creates erasure poems out of the text on the page.

Looking more at this Rip themed poetry (distorted by The Deletionist). This is a wikipedia page on Rip currents, I’m just not sure about it. It feels a bit nothing to me (but that’s so subjective!)

Thinking curation: At this point I’m thinking that my final three pieces will be the short story (exp. 2), the riptide “ripped” lyric audio (exp. 4) and something along the lines of this experiment. I think they all in a textual sense explore the possibility of new meaning being derived from pieces of nonsense. I have successfully scrambled or reconstructed those three pieces and think they could work well together. In my mind the audio plays loudly in the exhibition, the short story is written across a whole wall and these deconstructed poems are framed and hanging on another wall in a set of three. 

I picked these five final pieces that I’ll re-create in Illustrator to be five stand alone images to be framed and hung on a wall as part of a set. They are a collection of erasure poems (created through use of the deletionist) that have been sourced from my own writing (1), my tumblr posts (2 and 4), a wikipedia page (3) and a poem about a riptide (5). They have been put together in an attempt to assemble some kind of narrative (which they do at least for me). 

This piece is a set of randomly generated and fragmented poems that explore the notion of constructed meanings. Each poem started as a full piece based on the theme of “the rip”, and has been randomly stripped down to bare essentials. The poems push the boundaries of minimalism and the ability of repeated words to produce subjective meaning.

I would like these in my final pieces, perhaps as a set of three or five in frames on a wall. I think the way you frame something aids in the interpretation (or misinterpretation) of an object. If these were in frames then the viewer automatically thinks they are of value and importance, and would instantly look for meaning in the pieces, regardless of whether or not the artist intended it. 

The Deletionist screenshots. From Jacques Derrida, “Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida,”

“The Deletionist sets out to create erasures from the vastest hypertext available, the Web, considered by Kenneth Goldsmith to be, itself, “the greatest poem ever written.” A project by Amaranth Borsuk, Jesper Juul and Nick Montfort

Alec Baldwin, curtly

Above is a Hamlet-inspired take on Craigslist.