'I am Writing to You'. A Doubled Text in Two Parts.
To-go text, edition of 500.
21,59 cm x 27,94 cm (US Letter)
Text montage of letter correspondences, created for the group exhibition One After Another, in Succession, 2015.
In collaboration with Litia Perta.
With Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachman, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville West, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmond Jabès, Roland Barthes, Fleetwood Mac, Katherine Hubbard, Inga Svensson, Dylan Mira, Hélèn Cixous, Carmen Argote, Johanna Breiding, and Jennifer Moon.
'I am Writing to You'. A Doubled Text in Two Parts. is a text montage of letter correspondences, created for the exhibition One After Another, in Succession, curated by Johanna Breiding at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles, October 24th – December 5th, 2015. During the summer of 2015, Breiding and Wildow started a letter correspondence around their personal experiences of and artistic practices on death, loss and affect. The correspondence unfurled into Breiding asking Wildow if she would like to write a text for the group exhibition One After Another, in Succession. Wildow used the letter correspondence between the two artists as the starting-point, when tracing through hundreds of years of surviving letter correspondences, and created a tissue of quotations that folded into each other – mounted on a map of the gallery space in which the exhibition was shown. Artists and writers in the text are writing to each other; writing themselves to the other, maybe; texts of beginnings; lacking endings. Picked apart and montaged together, these letters are weving other meaning.
When writer and professor Litia Perta was invited as an editor of the text piece, a new letter correspondence between her and Hanna Wildow started – one in which the act of citing is philosophically and critically unraveled, as well as ideas friendship, affinity and criticality. This correspondence was edited collaboratively by the two, mounted onto the map of the space, and printed as the doubled part of the letter correspondence; thus generating a commentary text that cites a conversation about citing conversations.
21,59 cm x 27,94 cm (US Letter)
Text montage of letter correspondences, created for the group exhibition One After Another, in Succession, 2015.
In collaboration with Litia Perta.
With Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachman, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville West, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmond Jabès, Roland Barthes, Fleetwood Mac, Katherine Hubbard, Inga Svensson, Dylan Mira, Hélèn Cixous, Carmen Argote, Johanna Breiding, and Jennifer Moon.
'I am Writing to You'. A Doubled Text in Two Parts. is a text montage of letter correspondences, created for the exhibition One After Another, in Succession, curated by Johanna Breiding at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles, October 24th – December 5th, 2015. During the summer of 2015, Breiding and Wildow started a letter correspondence around their personal experiences of and artistic practices on death, loss and affect. The correspondence unfurled into Breiding asking Wildow if she would like to write a text for the group exhibition One After Another, in Succession. Wildow used the letter correspondence between the two artists as the starting-point, when tracing through hundreds of years of surviving letter correspondences, and created a tissue of quotations that folded into each other – mounted on a map of the gallery space in which the exhibition was shown. Artists and writers in the text are writing to each other; writing themselves to the other, maybe; texts of beginnings; lacking endings. Picked apart and montaged together, these letters are weving other meaning.
When writer and professor Litia Perta was invited as an editor of the text piece, a new letter correspondence between her and Hanna Wildow started – one in which the act of citing is philosophically and critically unraveled, as well as ideas friendship, affinity and criticality. This correspondence was edited collaboratively by the two, mounted onto the map of the space, and printed as the doubled part of the letter correspondence; thus generating a commentary text that cites a conversation about citing conversations.