Reflection on digestion / Amanda Couch.

  • Couch, Amanda
Date:
2012
  • Books

About this work

Description

"A durational performance, Reflection in Digestion, at Book Live! originates this manuscript through the performative act of copying and re-writing of texts made on a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching, reflections on research as practice, and personal and phenomenological narrative. Reading, in medieval times, argued by Carruthers in The Book and the Body, was 'a bodily performance', rather than simply the decoding of words on a page. Similarly, Reflection in Digestion reconnects the body (of both writer and viewer) with writing through the action of the scribe, reading, consideration, translation, and the act of copying reconstituting a relationship arguably severed by the invention of the printing press. Reflection in Digestion, lasting for 10 hours, documents the process of performance, of thinking and writing, of copying and remembering whilst simultaneously recording the body's shifting emotional and physical states through the loops and garlands of the handwriting itself." --artist's website.

Publication/Creation

[Farnham] : bookRoom, 2012.

Physical description

1 folded sheet (20 unnumbered panels), 1 loose sheet ; 13 cm x 290 cm folded to 13 cm x 15 cm, jacket (14 cm x 15 cm x 2 cm)

Notes

Three metre laser print folded into 20 page concertina form. Printed on 145gsm soft white Zerkall paper with blind embossed 410gsm Somerset Satin internal and vellum external covers.
Includes magnifying glass.
Edition: 10/30.
"Performed at Book Live! international symposium and related live performances at London South Bank University on 9th June 2012, organised by the Centre for Media and Cultural Research (CMCR) at London South Bank University and bookRoom Research Cluster at University for the Creative Arts Farnham & Wimbledon College of Art Library, 5, 6, 9 & 10 July 2012." -- artist's website.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

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    A64

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