scripturacontinua
23-27 March 2010
Performance: Tuesday 23rd March 2010, 6-9pmJordan McKenzie responds with painstaking sincerity; listening, stopping, writing and overwriting. Studiously taking dictation, he draws inspiration from Umberto Eco "a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, 'I love you madly,' because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, 'As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.'" Scribing and scribbling his unwavering ode to endless love, McKenzie invites you to enact your own ritual consideration with a Burning Love boxset.
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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
Francis 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
