Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Excuse me, where is this narrative going?
Both the short texts based on newspaper felt very much like a confirmation of my earlier thoughts about collage and directionality. The authors use - both in a different, but still intensely graphic way - the rearrangements of the words to de- and recontextualize, to fragment previous meanings and at the same time focus the text into a much more straight forward point; a theme if you will. This also leads back to my impression of Nadja having a subconscious narrative as well as a surface one, however in the case of the newspaper pieces that narrative was picked out of the sources by virtue of the composers' (which I will apply here instead of author, for it feels much more like they create new tunes out of a fixed set of materials, adhering to certain - albeit mostly and loosely grammatical - rules) eyes to be brought before the reader to see what they wouldn't have, had they only read the original pages.
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