Posts Tagged ‘art’
Random Quotations
Posted by: dkoupf on: November 27, 2010
“The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.” “I’m not interested in collage as the refuge of the compositionally disabled. I’m interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.” “You don’t make art; you find it.” From: Reality Hunger by David Shields (2010). I’m working on a paper about [...]
Scrap Sculptures
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 28, 2010
Check out this cool article about the work of Nick Georgiou, which combines two of my favorite topics: scrap writing and textual recycling (literally — I mean, like, physically). “His vision is to turn something old into something new,” in part to comment on the supposed decline of the printed word (his recent work in [...]
Nameless Letter
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 22, 2009
I came across a new scrap writing website about a month ago but was apparently too lazy to post about it, until now. It’s called Nameless Letter and it’s part public art project, part ongoing scavenger hunt. Like the wonderful blog People Reading, Nameless Letter represents reading as a communal activity, something for people to [...]
Galleries of Scraps
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 27, 2009
I’ve just read that Passive Aggressive Notes, like Post Secret, recently presented some notable scraps in a gallery exhibit at KK Outlet in London. It’s difficult to discern whether the scraps on exhibit are originals or reproductions. Many submissions to the website are electronic — scanned or photographed images — so I assume that the [...]
My Scraps
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