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‘koko’ – next generation journal, issue #1, “text/image parergon”

KOKO – Next Generation Journal

Text/Image Parergon

Here is the first thematic “space” of KOKO – The Next Generation Journal, a Shared Campus publication.

Text/Image Parergon explores potentials and challenges in the relations of scriptorial and pictorial signs. How do text and image respectively frame an artefact? Does the combination of both constitute an extended value or merely a supplementary by-product that primarily appeals to the visual and other senses? Should such parerga be considered positively as added experiential benefit, or negatively as distractive embellishments of a core? Questions like these are explored in an initial set of academic “Conversations”, through the “Proceedings” of a dedicated conference and in image-with-text “Essays” by researchers working on and across the boundaries of scholarly research and creative production.

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Conversations

Proceedings: Distancing – Contemporary Art in Reciprocity with Philosophy

Hosted on 16 May 2019 at the Kunstraum Kreuzlingen (CH) by the Zürich University of the Arts the symposium was set to explore the iconography of philosophical texts – in particular the imagery of Lady Philosophy as first introduced into philosophical tradition by the late antique writer Boethius (477–524) in his work The Consolation of Philosophy (approx. 524). The juxtaposition of medieval thinking, its articulation in illuminations, and in return their impact as challenge for contemporary creative practices, highlighted the need to investigate the mostly unquestioned principal opposition between immaterial thoughts and materialized images.

Essays

Space Editors: Peter Benz & Nils Röller

KOKO Editorial Statement

It is the ambition of KOKO to establish a lively and continuously evolving community of researchers contributing to respective topics; we therefore are always interested to receive feedback and/or potentially new contributions also to already existing “spaces”.
Where the more conventional formats have exhausted their possibilities, artists, designers and/or other creatives may use KOKO to create a metaphorical space for exchange through an externalised conversation between the researcher/creative practitioner and her subject.
 

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three works / marie orensanz

Sandro Ricaldone

Principio transfer, 1978
Energie IV, 1981
Untitled, 1989

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Marie Orensanz débuta sa carrière artistique en étudiant la peinture avec deux des artistes fondateurs du Modernisme Argentin : Emilio Pettoruti et Antonio Seguí. En tant que membre actif de la scène artistique de Buenos Aires dans les années 60 et 70, elle participa aux expositions et activités culturelles organisées par l’Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, et s’impliqua dans le Centro de Arte y Comunicación. Elle s’installa en 1972 à Milan. La proximité de Carrara et ses carrières de marbre initia ses premières productions utilisant comme matière la pierre. Elle a depuis continué à travailler avec des fragments de marbre, les transformant en livres et sculptures. Selon les mots de Christina M. Harrison, « Orensanz utilise des fragments matériels et symboliques -de marbre, de lignes, de signes- pour représenter des pensées. … Selon la conception d’Orensanz, l’interprétation de ce travail dépend de l’intersection des fragments avec les pensées et expériences du spectateur. »

En 1975, Marie Orensanz s’installa à Paris et fut plus tard naturalisée Française. Trois ans plus tard, elle écrivit un « Manifeste du Fragmentisme » dans lequel elle présenta la base conceptuelle de ses travaux. Écrit en Espagnol, Anglais et Français, le Manifeste proclame : « le Fragmentisme recherche l’intégration d’une partie dans un tout ; il la transforme aux bout de plusieurs lectures en un objet non terminé et illimité, traversant le temps et l’espace. »

https://www.schoolgallery.fr/talents/marie-orensanz/

the plastic use of the letter or sign would not signify anything other than itself

[…]
In the plastic field, Lettrism is based on the merging of image and word. The plastic use of the letter or sign would not signify anything other than itself, thus transcending traditional conventions of meaning by emphasising the form of the letter over representation. Isou conceived Lettrism as fundamentally different from movements that preceded it, representing a complete shift from figuration and abstraction to the plastic use of the symbol of letters or signs. While Isou acknowledged that some artists associated with the Bauhaus and Cubism, and artists such as Marcel Duchamp, approached qualities of Lettrism, Isou declared that these artists ultimately faltered by subjecting letters to function and burdening them with meaning, rather than granting them independence and allowing them to become pure form.
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signs of life of signs

Signs of life of signs
su compostxt e IEPI (e weeimage):

cfr.
http://compostxt.blogspot.it/2013/12/signs-of-life-of-signs-differx-2013.html
http://poeticinvention.blogspot.it/2013/12/signs-of-life-of-signs-differx-2013.html

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“signs and symbols” (october 2013)

Signs and Symbols
October, 2013, Art exhibit at the General Store Community Arts Centre
in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia (organisers: Tim Gaze & Marisa Ala Dea)

Here’s the whole book/pdf of the works (Tim Gaze, ed.):
http://asemicwriting.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/signs-and-symbols-mail-art-catalogue.pdf
[ 152 Mb ]

@ scribd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/190979576/SignsSigns-and-Symbols-Mail-Art-Catalogue

General Store’s Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralStoreCommunityArtGroupInc

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mail art project: “signs & symbols”

Please send compositions of symbols on paper or cardboard for this project. You can draw them or paint them by hand, or include computer-generated symbols or other techniques. Size: preferably ordinary writing paper (A4 or letter) or postcard. But can be larger or smaller, if you like.

Some possible influences: prehistoric rock paintings, Lettriste hypergraphies, asemic writing, Egyptian & Mayan hieroglyphs, alien glyphs, Chinese seal script, wingdings fonts, visual poetry.

You might find free fonts from places such as Omniglot.com useful.

All entries which contain signs & symbols will be exhibited at the General Store Community Arts Centre, in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia: https://www.facebook.com/GeneralStoreCommunityArtGroupInc for the month of October 2013.

PDF documentation will be sent to all participants who provide an email address. We can’t afford to return your artwork.

closing date: 1st September 2013

address: signs & symbols project
P O Box 1011
Kent Town
SA 5071
Australia

thank you!
Tim Gaze & Marisa Ala Dea, organisers