MARKET MARKET//DARWIN FESTIVAL//26.08.2023
This iteration of I Am a Text was developed for Market Market, an experimental arts lab and site-specific project situated within Darwin’s Rapid Creek Markets. The work was distributed through QR codes printed onto brown paper takeaway bags, linking market visitors to moving-image material and sound recordings from the market environment.
In this context, the text moved away from the gallery and entered a public, transactional, and everyday space. It circulated through hands, food, movement, bodies, and market exchange.
Documentation
Video/QR bag documentation/sound/project images.
Research Relation
This version extends the project’s interest in textual circulation. The work becomes less a fixed artwork than a distributed encounter: a text carried through public space, opened through a device, and activated by the reader/viewer’s movement.
It demonstrates how the project’s textual surfaces are not limited to the page, screen, or gallery wall. A takeaway bag, a QR code, a market, and a mobile phone all become surfaces of inscription and reception.
QR Relation
Section: Part II: Praxis
Chapter: I AM A TEXT / Market Market
Page: 124
Return to the document: This page documents the public and distributed iteration of I Am a Text discussed in the exegesis.