NORTHERN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART//2019
Apocryphilia names an attraction to the excluded, supplementary, doubtful, or non-canonical text. Drawing on the idea of the apocrypha—writings that sit beside, outside, or against authorised scripture—this page gathers a supplementary textual logic at work in Meeting the Text Halfway.
Rather than treating the apocryphal as simply false, secondary, or rejected, Apocryphilia approaches it as a productive condition of textuality. What is excluded from the canon still presses against it. What is supplementary still shapes the body of the text. What is placed outside continues to haunt the inside.
Documentation
Images/text fragments/process documentation/supplementary material.
Research Relation
Within Meeting the Text Halfway, Apocryphilia extends the project’s interest in scripture, authorship, canon, exclusion, and textual afterlife. It speaks to the way texts are formed not only by what they include, but by what they disavow, redact, misplace, inherit, or fail to contain.
The page also supports the project’s broader concern with exegesis as method. To read apocryphally is to attend to the unstable edge of the authorised text: the margin, the supplement, the footnote, the residue, the unofficial witness, the excluded body.
QR Relation
Section: Part II: Praxis
Chapter: ECCE HOMO / Exegesis as Object
Page: 171
Return to the document: This page extends the exegesis by gathering supplementary material connected to scripture, canon, authorship, and the apocryphal edges of the text.