Tamarin Norwood
documentation of work 2004-2009
the meaning of the whistle is not in the shape or colour of the sound itself, but rather in the interim pause
(April 07) Video (4:21 min loop)
Copying from one page to another, with no fixed points of reference.
This is the first of three video propositions that make up the ‘Blackbird’s Whistle’ installation. The pantograph copies handwritten text from one sheet of paper to another, but neither the sheets of paper nor the pantograph is secured to the table as they should be. It means that the pantograph does more than just adjust the size of the copied text: its movements, and the movements of the source and target papers, replace the shapes of the words as the factors that define the text.
The presence of the pantograph asserts the presence of a third element of translation which is contained neither in the source nor target language but rather in the turbulence of the encounter between them.
This is the first of three video propositions that make up the ‘Blackbird’s Whistle’ installation. The pantograph copies handwritten text from one sheet of paper to another, but neither the sheets of paper nor the pantograph is secured to the table as they should be. It means that the pantograph does more than just adjust the size of the copied text: its movements, and the movements of the source and target papers, replace the shapes of the words as the factors that define the text.
The presence of the pantograph asserts the presence of a third element of translation which is contained neither in the source nor target language but rather in the turbulence of the encounter between them.