How long does it take to build a ruin?

“How long does it take to build a ruin” is a ongoing prosject between Halvor Skiftun Digernes and Bård Torgersen. The prosject mainly concerns time, materiality, and text – how time shapes and changes both text and materiality, meaning and form. How text can emerge from the abstract and become something tactile, physical – a body, a surface, a presence. And how people change over time, and how words follow, try to keep pace, or lag behind. It is an exploration of how what we write, read, and touch changes us – and how we, in turn, change it back. The project will last over 8 years with a bunch of side-projects.

What happens to a text that has been hidden outdoors – exposed to all kinds of weather and wind? We’ll find out in three years.

Read more about @lordbard and my ongoing and constantly evolving project

«hiding in plain sight (and not )” at Scrypth

Text ,ceramics , nature and time

And some beautiful process pictures by the talented photographer @coreyhartphoto

What turns a stain into a sign, and when does a sign become writing? What are the consequences – the possibilities and limitations – of how words appear on the page? On the screen? On the canvas? Where does literature cross over into art? What, in fact, is the visual character of language? These are the questions that form the starting point for SCRYPTH, and which we (perhaps) will find answers to on 1 October at Literature at Blå.

SCRYPTH is an online journal, a Nordic platform for interdisciplinary artists, and a space for new discussions about creative practice. It is a showcase that promotes the work of visual artists and experimental writers from the Nordic countries, and aims to establish an innovative and bold perspective on the relationship between contemporary text and visual art. The project builds on the traditions of the post-war avant-garde, exploring the visual character of the written word; from concrete and collage poetry that introduces visual aesthetics into literature, to abstract expressionism that shifts the boundary between writing and drawing, and an exploration of semantics that links literature and visual art to anthropology and neurology.

SCRYPTH is founded and curated by Vilde Bjerke Torset, and on 1 October she will be joined by a selection of the journal’s contributors: Monica Aasprong, Audun Mortensen, Anne Sophie Lorange, Bård Torgersen, and Halvor Digernes. They will perform work based on their contributions published in SCRYPTH, as well as some new interpretations thereof.