info (.IT): https://www.roots-routes.org/call-for-proposal/
info (.EN): https://www.roots-routes.org/english-call-for-proposal/
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info (.IT): https://www.roots-routes.org/call-for-proposal/
info (.EN): https://www.roots-routes.org/english-call-for-proposal/
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§runbook est un livre d’artiste en devenir via le réseau des boîtes mail. Un certain nombre d’écrivains et d’artistes invités par runbook invitent à leur tour plusieurs personnes à participer, ces personnes reconduisent l’invitation vers d’autres, ainsi de suite pendant une année. Le but de l’expérience étant d’avoir un ouvrage collectif et imprévisible qui se développe de façon autonome.
runbook is an art book in progress via a network. A number of writers and artists invited by runbook in turn invite people to participate, who then pass on the invitation to others, and so on for a year. The aim of the experiment is to create an unpredictable collective work that develops autonomously
runbook n’a pas de thème défini.
Il existera en fonction de l’air du temps et des préoccupations artistiques des participants.runbook doesn’t have a predefined theme.
It will exist, in tune with the times and reflecting the artistic preoccupations
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/
A conference organised by the Centre for Material Texts, University of
Cambridge to be held 11-12 September 2012 at Jesus College, Cambridge
The shared origin of ‘text’ and ‘textile’ in the Latin ‘texere’, ‘to
weave’, is a critical commonplace. Many of the terms we use to describe
our interactions with words are derived from this common linguistic
root, and numerous other expressions associated with reading and writing
are drawn from the rich vocabulary of cloth. Textiles are one of the
most ubiquitous components of material culture, and they are also
integral to the material history of texts. Paper was originally made
from cotton rags, and in many different cultural and historical settings
texts come covered, wrapped, bound, or decorated with textiles. And
across the domestic, public, religious, and political spheres, textiles
are often the material forms in which texts are produced, consumed, and
circulated.
In the light of the CMT’s current research theme on ‘the material text
in material culture’, we invite papers which consider any of the many
dimensions of the relationship between texts and textiles. There are no
historical, geographical, or disciplinary limitations. Areas to be
addressed could include:
the shared language of texts and textiles – construction and
deconstruction: Continua a leggere