NAN GIESIE GALLERY//CDU//17.11.17
I Am a Text investigates the body as a site of inscription, projection, and reading. The work stages the self not as a stable origin of meaning, but as something produced through textual encounter: named, read, misread, cited, translated, and reconstituted through systems of address.
Developed through performance, video, installation, print, and the reappropriation of biblical material, the work asks where the body ends and the text begins. Its central declaration—“I am a text”—operates as both provocation and method, opening the body to the conditions of reading.
Documentation
Images/video/installation documentation.
Research Relation
Within the broader project, I Am a Text introduces the central proposition that textuality is not confined to written language. The body appears as both reader and read surface; both subject and substrate; both authorial presence and textual effect.
The work establishes many of the project’s ongoing concerns: text/flesh entanglement, biblical inscription, queer address, authorship, projection, and the instability of origins. It becomes a recurring point of return throughout Meeting the Text Halfway.
QR Relation
Section: Part II: Praxis
Chapter: I AM A TEXT
Page: 124
Return to the document: This page provides visual and moving-image documentation of the work discussed in Part II.