Thank you for all your submissions! The tickertext2 project has come to an end after a successful two-month run, scrolling all approved submissions to passersby in the York Corridor in Concordia’s EV building. The submission form remains open, and future, approved truisms will scroll on the above ticker. This website now serves as an archive of the project.
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tickertext2: truisms are… In coordination with the DHC/ART gallery and Concordia University’s FOFA gallery, phase II of the tickertext project will use the art of Jenny Holzer to inspire a new set of writing constraints, and a new network of literary dissemination and display. From 14 September to 14 November, attendees of DHC/ART’s Jenny Holzer retrospective, and writers from around the world (including you!) will be invited to submit their own tickertexts in response to Holzer’s work, and within a set of formal contraints informed by the language and syntax of her famous Truisms. These new submissions will then be transmitted, via the tickertext2 website, to a multimedia Ticker installation located at the FOFA gallery. In this way, textual work created in response to one exhibit at a Montreal art gallery will produce a text based art installation across town. As with the first phase of tickertext, the project will be curated by Jason Camlot and designed in collaboration with Matthieu Tremblay, Prem Sooriyakumar and David Ward.
Visit the phase 1 website of the TickerText project.
truisms are…
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By Jason Camlot
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From the 2nd floor and York Corridor of the EV building at Concordia University, November 2010.
