Bunch Alliance and Dissolve
Complete Publication, 2006
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Bunch Alliance and Dissolve
White Cow in a Snowstorm, text by Walead Beshty, 2006
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A White Cow in a Snow Storm 2006- , text in word format, accumulated edits in Microsoft Word track changes, Flash-based abstraction derived from track changes edits when text is finished being edited by host/collaborators, digital output, dimensions variable, as is form.
A White Cow in a Snowstorm is a text that can be used by any host (magazine, exhibition etc.) that displays its own editorial process. Its final form includes all the editing that occurs during a specific period of time (from the moment the text is commissioned to the moment of it being presented in public) and contains the traces of the processes that are often repressed in the moment a text or work of art is confronted. It is presented in three parts, a concise conventionally readable form, a digital form, and in a plastic form derived from the Microsoft Word’s track changes edit markings. It is written in a rough editable form, full of first person assertions, and aphoristic phrasings. The tension between its authorial proclamations, and the collaborative editorial process represented through the text bubbles is the core dialectic of the work. The work reflects the hidden voices, and temporal progressions, that make up the final form of a text or a work of art, which the audience is usually not privy to, a reaffirmation of a fiction of the autonomous author and the invisible context. It is a materialist work of art, in the form of text, within which the notion of compromise is imbedded. The work accepts this condition of compromise while still providing a space for expression, and yet, not assert that it is a fundamentally compromised expression or present the text as a utopian prescription for collectivist writing, but to underscore that all expressions are derived from such compromises. The version included here is in its second manifestation, and is the result of the invaluable commentary of Rachel Foullon, Matthew Keegan, and Laura Kleger under the mantle Public-Holiday Projects.
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Complete Publication, 2006 - COMING SOON!
