scripturacontinua
2-7 March 2010
Performance: Tuesday 2nd March 2010, 6-9pm Sheila Ghelani finds spaces in the tumult of letters. With an alchemical love story, she uses the gaps that exist either side of words to open the space that we keep between us. To fill these gaps, to find a way to communicate; she shares her ingredients, looking deep into your eyes. A mixture of sugar, spice and all things nice fall across the table and find their way between the layers of her limited edition flower presses as she looks for Me and You (sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G).
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KALEID is proud to announce scripturacontinua, a season of performance curated by Katharine Fry taking place throughout March 2010.
Sheila Ghelani, 2nd-7th March 2010
Helen Schoene, 9th-14th March 2010
Frances Elliott, 16th-21st March 2010
Jordan McKenzie, 23rd-27th March 2010
Scriptura Continua refers to the writing of late antiquity in which no inter-word spacing or punctuation was used, with no distinction made between cases. As such, the task of interpreting the text fell to the reader, forced to divide the written string of letters into words. Meaning was only recovered through oralisation as the texts were recited over and over again.
scripturacontinua considers parallels with performance art in terms of ritual, repetition and shared experience. Each week a different artist responds to the theme with a live performance and the creation of limited edition residua, inviting the audience to share a realm of private acts and sacred texts.
For more information and images contact Katharine Fry at the gallery: katharine(at)kaleideditions.com
