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I See What You're Saying

The project set out to explore and respond to the visual and textual relationships forged by artists selected from the Ikon Gallery’s programme with a view to developing the publication as a significant artistic product that will add to the repository of ideas currently available to researchers. The project was developed in relationship to the Art Writing Network initiated by David Burrows. The publication consists of writings that contribute original reflections on and responses to aspects of the Ikon Gallery’s programme. The publication has been deliberately devised to explore the visual and textual interplay, e.g. through its format, typography and the collating of photographs of art works many of which were temporary in nature and exist in no other publication.

This publication is significant because it is the first publication to explore this aspect of the Ikon Gallery’s programme and to bring together images of a number of temporary, durational and site specific artworks some of which are no longer in existence. The researcher is particularly interested in the relationship between text and object and how the status of both change given the circumstances in which they are encountered (rather than necessarily as they may be read). There is of course a complex relationship here between the readable and the notion of the encounter that has an impact on the nature of how the ‘word-as-an-object’ gains currency and becomes meaningful. This publication is important in that it provides researchers within Centre for Fine Art Research and beyond a new resource and will have a positive impact on the development of curriculum within the School of Art.