A series of durational performances and web works transcribing Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” variously onto digital tablets or tracing paper using headcams, webfeeds and live video projection on windows. The project includes documentation/print works, audience screengrabs and a website at www.justfornow.net
“But aside from the function of the copy as a method of reproduction, a method of study and a source of solution to formal problems [...] there are other reasons for making copies [...] to pay homage [...] to copy as an act of love.”
Lovesick exhibition program
“taking time places the laborious, almost historical procedure of handwriting into an electronic context by reproducing by hand, via a Wacom pad, the entire essay, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ by Walter Benjamin.”
Burning Bush Festival programme
act of love, Lovesick, Bergen Kunsthalle, Norway, 2001; taking time, Burning Bush Festival, Dundee, Scotland, 2002; connectionscript, “connectingprinciple,” University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 2002; transcript, ISIS Arts, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 2003; transcription, justfornow, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 2004
