NORTHERN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART//2019
The Word Becomes Flesh extends the project’s ongoing exploration of text/flesh entanglements. Through projection, wax, sound, and surface, the work stages text and body as mutually constitutive, each formed through the other in the act of encounter.
Drawing on the theological formulation of “the word became flesh,” the work reconfigures that phrase as a cyclical and material process. Text does not simply become body once; rather, text and flesh continually translate one another across repetition, movement, and inscription.
Documentation
Installation views/video/projection documentation/stills/audio.
Research Relation
Within Meeting the Text Halfway, this work sharpens the central proposition that text and body are not separate domains but entangled surfaces. It demonstrates how inscription can be understood not merely as writing on a support, but as a reciprocal process through which bodies are textualised and texts acquire body.
The work is especially important to the project’s thinking around scripture, embodiment, translation, and the phrase “text/flesh” as a methodological and conceptual device.
QR Relation
Section: Methodologies & Methods
Chapter: Meeting the Word and the Flesh Halfway
Page: 37
Return to the document: This page documents the work referenced in the discussion of text/flesh entanglements and the word becoming flesh.
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.