About me: ‘It is in the reader that the text comes to life.’ (Iser, 1978)
CHAPTER ARTS, CARDIFF WALES UK
UNBOUND: A series of fictional first pages detached from books that might somehow, somewhere, exist.
Throughout June and July a variety of texts will be projected before film screenings in Chapter’s cinemas. Part of an on-going collaboration between artist Richard Higlett and writer Leona Jones, the selected pages explore the complex figurative and literal interconnections between written word, visual image, reader and audience.
When silently read, the written word provides the reader with an intimate and individual experience within a personally selected space and time-span. Conversely, each member of the audience watching images comprising a cinema film responds within a controlled environment and in the company of others, mostly strangers.
This collection seeks to use some of the conventions of both cinema and literature to highlight the multiple conflicting and complementary realities (eg physical, social, emotional, intellectual) inherent in the individual’s experience of both watching a screening and reading a book.
These pages are part of an ongoing project examining the concept ‘Beginning’, envisaged to take many different forms including installations, projections, prints and, if an ending is discovered, a book.
www.myspace.com/jonesandhiglett
‘The image is not an end in itself; it is a start.’ (Mitry, 1997)
