"[T]he person who crosses borders in an indifferent fashion never crosses
borders. The person who doesn't tremble while crossing a border doesn't know there is a
border and doesn't cast doubt on their own definition."
--Helene Cixous
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
Alexandra Grant
and Michael Joyce originally
gave the joint-talk "Wordlessnessless of the
miteinander" that forms the basis of this site as part of the extraordinary
page-space
events place at Calarts and Machine Project in Los Angeles in February 2004.
page-space was devised and
curated by Braxton Soderman
and Jason Brown under the auspices of the
Superbunker Machine Poetics Research Unit.
Details from Alexandra Grant's sculptural work,
"Nimbus," based on text by Michael Joyce appear among the images elsewhere in this site;
the original installation of that work can be seen
here.
At page_space Grant and Joyce met and admired the work of
Roxanne M Carter, a web artist and maker of artist books, and invited her to create this
site with them. She accepted this invitation to their great delight.
"Wordlessnessless of the miteinander" is something of a prospectus and artists' statement
for woven voices. It traces the first steps for a larger collaborative project in progress,
"indécritions, a series of collaborative works meant to examine the flow from image
to text and vice-versa, and looking at ideas of coding, correspondences, and the like.
This version was revised for a repeat performance at Notre Dame's &NOW, a festival
of contemporary writing in April 2004, organized by Steve Tomasula. This site was
prepared as part of a special issue of
The Notre Dame Review.
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Alexandra Grant
Odyssey, 2004
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