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The conceptual force of handwriting
In Radio Strainer, handwriting carries conceptual force, as does the position of text in space and the layering of pages upon and through each other. Texts are repeated in handwritten and typed form, with these iterations assuming a reading differently will occur between the orderliness of typing and the gestural immediacy of drawing. This work contains elements of homage to the sense of contemporary palimpsest in choreographer Efva Lilja’s artist-book Movement as a Memory of the Body (2006). Implicit in the performance of the Radio Strainer book is the assumption that readers will encounter this book intuitively and kinesthetically.
It assumes a kind of collaboration and reinvention with its every read encounter – that its completion lies with the work that reading brings. Radio Strainer strains to open up spaces, to resist containment and to provoke a Louppian agitation of matter particularly in relation to embodied translation in dance research.
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