During our overlapping
internships at Artspeak (Vancouver, BC), Nick and I worked closely with
the galleries library and archives; physically sorting and moving books and
publications, updating spreadsheets and index cards, and reading texts in the
collection. During this physical labour we sent voice memos back and forth,
highlighting fragments of text that made its way into our individual research
practices. After compiling these memos, we ran them through speech-to-text
software to create transcriptions of the voice notes, then, working from the
unedited transcriptions, we began building a new text. Some of the lines are
direct quotations, some are paraphrased, and others are offhand remarks from
the voice memos. Over time and through various methods of
articulation/re-articulation, these lines have been relocated and have begun
drifting away from/or alongside their original references in this text that plays
with the mutability of citation over time and the slippage between quotation
and verbal rearticulation.
Original text dimention 70’’ x 2.25’’
