100-50-10-1: Jan

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derivative, distinctive, theoretised, intuitive, disturbing, timorous, brave, tentative, tremulous, technical, constipated, immured, inaccessible, accusatory, feminist, political, dead, vital, aloof, lamentable, ambivalent, cowardly, angry, resigned, compromising, harsh, antediluvian, costly, barking, barren, fruitful, fruitless, embryonic, pregnant, perverse, compulsive, fetid, fictive, feigned, authentic, baffling, serious, solemn, sincere, spurious, genuine, strident, gloomy, vainglorious, conceited, humble, modest, hodgepodge, risible, claptrap, slow, subjective, biased, personal, backward-looking, discriminating, heterogeneous, consistent, ethical, honourable, soft, harsh, idealistic, unknowing, wise, bewildering, adequate, inadequate, flawed, imitative, starved, tawdry, crude, taut, succinct, taciturn, telling, tedious, insular, open, inspired, dramatic, entrenched, panic-stricken, tricky, unexpected, self-effacing, mundane, unpractised, under-explored, undervalued, idiopathic, private, monochromatic, surprising.

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derivative, distinctive, theorised, intuitive, disturbing, timorous, brave, technical, constipated, immured, starved, dead, vital, feminist, angry, compromising, barking, serious, modest, biased, ethical, flawed, crude, succinct, insular, unexpected, self-effacing, pregnant, unpractised, surprising, risible, adequate, inadequate, discriminating, open, heterogeneous, panic-stricken, perverse, genuine, consistent, fictive, monochromatic, gloomy, costly, subjective, soft, accusatory, slow, bewildering, compulsive,

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derivative, constipated, feminist, pregnant, compulsive, slow, surprising, theorised, crude, disturbing

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slow














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Current work is influenced by the quasi-ethnographic approach of Sophie Calle; her collaboration with Paul Auster, and the way that they manipulated the boundary between fact and fiction. This prompted me to start an imaginary relationship with Siri Hustvedt, through her first novel, The Blindfold. I am recreating objects (a stained glove, some soiled cotton wool, and a small mirror) that Hustvedt makes central to her narrative, and exploring their nature, primarily through video. What has emerged so far is the ambiguity of mundane things that might be seen as simultaneously subject and object, enlivened and inert, reality and invention.

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The quasi-ethnographic Sophie Calle,
With Paul Auster,
Manipulated the boundary between fact and fiction
To start an imaginary relationship, Blindfold, with
A stained glove,
Some soiled cotton wool, and
A small mirror.
What has emerged?
The ambiguity of mundane things,
Simultaneously subject and object,
Enlivened and inert,
Reality and invention.

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A Blindfold Boundary Invention
To Emerged Things
With Some Enlivened

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Invention