MEETING [THE] TEXT HALFWAY

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MEETING THE TEXT HALFWAY
ACADEMY OF THE ARTS GALLERY
CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY//2026Description

Meeting theText Halfway is a protracted meditation on the relationship between bodies and texts. Its thesis is that both are merely thresholds for one another. Its antithesis is that both feel so separate and materially individuated. There is no synthesis, but rather the ongoing negotiation of their entanglement as sites for reading, reinscription, translation, and meaning-making, where meaning is the inevitable aftershock of encounter rather than the foundation.

Meeting the Text Halfway proposes that texts and bodies are for each other a form of real estate. Metaphors for each other as sites of inhabitation. Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison. And where embodiment might be better thought of as a form of possession in the dual sense of possessing and being possessed.

Meeting the Text Halfway forms part of an ongoing inquiry into the ways that bodies and texts animate each other.


©2025I acknowledge The Larrakia People who are the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of this land and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty of Country was never ceded.