"Does a text hibernate when we are not reading it? Does a book die when you close it? Why is it so still?" This is a quote from Sally Noall’s Spokenwrittendrawn commission that explores the use of language within the Tate institution. It draws the attention to text as a tool and how it functions with an audience. Is there a need for an audience in order for text to retain its function? It also brings into question the difference between an active text and a dormant text; can we really know what a dormant text would look like? As text is activated by our engagement with it, would dormant text require no audience at all?
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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