During these last hectic weeks of school, I’ve found myself spending way too much time in front of the computer screen, particularly on Microsoft Word. As I’ve been running through spell checks, I’ve been thinking about Liz Knox’s project Excerpt.
Liz Knox graduated from Emily Carr with a Masters in Visual Arts in 2013. This past summer, I had the pleasure of having Liz as a seminar teacher and so became more familiar with her artistic practice.
Here’s a description of Excerpt, provided by Liz Knox’s website: “A collection of art theory texts were inserted into Microsoft Word, all the words were erased except for those flagged by Microsoft Word as spelling errors. What remains is a distillation of an excerpt of art history, an ironic system for re-reading the familiar, through optics of reference and stretched language.”
The book was created in an edition of 100. The art theory texts used include Roland Barthes’ “The Death of the Author”, Michael Fried’s “Art and Objecthood”, Nicholas Bourriaud’s “Relational Aesthetics”, Giles Deleuze’s “Cinema 1: The Movement Image”, and more. I find Knox’s book both clever and very amusing. I am just becoming familiar with most of these texts, and I’ve referenced a fair number of them while writing my assignments this semester. It’s fun to see the same words that came up during my spell checks (crossed out with red lines) appear in Knox’s book. The book is also an interesting reference guide to the jargon of artistic theory.
Click here to access more information on Excerpt.
Our collection also holds Liz Knox’s other book, Missed Connections. Missed Connections documents “missed connections” Craigslist posts submitted during the Occupy Wall Street movement. The postings were collected from across North America.
Click here to access more information on Missed Connections.
Click here to visit Liz Knox’s website
-Hannah Dempsey
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