Finished!!

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Debbie

All finished!

The Variance, Vagaries and Extreme Randomness of MS – Interactive: make your own poem

TERMS – digital film looped

Broken Signal – installation, 14metres of 16mm cine-film looped and projected.

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further research, my youtube page

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Debbie

search deborah humm to find channel

 

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‘Secondary Currents’ Peter Rose

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Debbie

Secondary Currents (1982)

The text appears you read it but the voice you hear in nonsensical, not even a foreign language, a disconnect between mind and vision you question what you are reading and what you hear…

 

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‘So Is This’ Michael Snow

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Debbie

‘So Is This’ Michael Snow

Concrete poetry as film

do you have the concentration to watch this all the way through-48.33minutes rolling words or are they flashing… language, simplistic but also quite humorous.

Silent but you can hear the words in your head: do we hear the same thing?

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Spoken Word Performance

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Debbie

Precious Hunter-Smith at Meltdownment

‘Great lines are those whose words ‘have often a network of tentacular roots reaching down to the deepest terrors and desires’.  Thus, strangely, we recognise the sound often before we comprehend the meaning…The loss is incalculable. Increasingly our inner ear is failing and an entire sound archive, from which great poetry was not only created but appreciated and understood, is fading away.’  Josephine Hart Catching Life by the Throat pg4

Reading aloud brings the poems to life.  Some of my previous Concrete Poetry has demanded to be read aloud but in a different way to this.  Although that too needed to be read aloud to make any sense

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Coming to TERMS

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Debbie

This film works in conjunction with the interchangeable poem book The Variance, Vagaries and Extreme Randomness of MS (which i am thinking of changing or adapting the title of for ease of remembering!) After playing this at Meltdownment it became apparent to me that it needs a sound track.  the visual offers the disturbance, the MS view of the world, the Sound track would offer the Normal, Non affected view of the world.  In a simple breakdown.  The soundtrack will be Precious Hunter-Smith performing reading her choice of poems.

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Voyage of the Line Installation

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Debbie

The film loop allows you the viewer to see the scroll, the mark, to view the Actual before it goes through the microscope, before it’s collapsed onto the wall.  You can walk around and through the installation enabling different views.  It is large and cumbersome taking up lots of space for a tiny end result.  View the physical mechanics normally hidden behind the scenes or the skin, the film or nerves normally wrapped around the reels/inside the body: the 100’s of feet of delicate yet strong material that carries the signal, the message or line.  Yet for all the Drawing-in-space the projected Line drawing is relatively small.

Rapidly degrading these are one-off site specific installations.

 

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Meltdownment Exhibition

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Debbie

An exhibition to place work in a ‘show’ context/arena, opening dialogues in preparation for the final tweaking and refinements before the Master’s Graduation Show.

Meltdownment

Meltdownment

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Royal Festival Hall Saison Poetry

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Debbie

I visited the Saison Poetry collection and discovered that the first issues of these books were held in there vaults, forms filled and ID given and I had my hands on them.

It felt very special to be handling these books, particularly the Queneau as i have been working on this particular format.  Lots of photos taken of the actual book binding, i am having difficulty finding someone to reproduce the book for me.  Another interesting note: A Hundred Thousand Billion Poem is actually One Hundred Million Million!  The poem that has turned into Myth and Legend…

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Dom Sylvester Houedard

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Dom Sylvester Houedard

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Dom Sylvester Houedard

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100,000,000,000

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100,000,000,000

http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/publishers/poetrybook/

 

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The Variance, Vagaries and Extreme Randomness of MS

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Debbie

‘A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems’ is a poem book consisting of 10 pages, each containing 14 lines. The mathematically grounded ‘sonnets’ are interchangeable throughout the book. The format of the child’s head-body-feet flipbook enables the Active readers to create their own poem from my preordained structure.

Raymond Queneau the Oulipian who invented the 100,000,000,000 poem format, calculated if you were to read each individual poetic formation one after the other 24 hours a day it would take 190,258,751 years to complete this book: boundless formations.

The Variance, Vagaries and Extreme Randomness of MS

The Variance, Vagaries and Extreme Randomness of MS

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