Lone Poetry, 2006-07
Statement by Jolanta Lapiak
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The video Lone Poetry presents another form and concept of writing and poetry. In relation to the theory of complementarity or Derridean hinge, this work flips the sides between image and word, and between visuality and textuality. That is, my body in the form of image becomes word, and word in the form of language becomes a function of visual image.
This pioneering work is a form of concrete poetry in Ameslan (ASL) and English. There is no image of pictures, but images of words in English and Ameslan (ASL). The video is an experimental work on the concept of "concrete poetry in ASL". It then stretches beyond the notion of the traditional alphabetical writing and concrete poetry.