Defamiliarization: an exploration of responses through text
The finale of the Dialogue Box series is currently on show and we are excited about the reactions we will receive. The artist Diana Ali has given us some words on the work:
'The Dialogue Box exhibition displays a stage of the ‘Defamiliarization’ project. The words exhibited are passed onto an artist in a different country. This artist then alters or re- interprets the words and substitutes it’s textual format into a visual one. They then take a digital picture of its revised form. The photograph must be a representation or be characteristic of the city or country it is in. All photographs are then returned to the original artist who came up with the words so they are re-introduced to the ‘defamiliarized’ version of their words.
The work started from local contributors and has now expanded around the globe. It questions the interpretation of someone’s creative thoughts into another’s and the visual interpretation of the written word. Who has the authorship to do this? But at the same time the project is allowing artists from around the globe to share their joys and anxieties of their heritage, language and countries to each other.
Artists around the world can see who have translated their words and in which country they were transformed by viewing this blog:
http://www.dianaalidefamiliarization.blogspot.com/ '
As Dialogue Box comes to a close this year we are hurridly planing the next series and will be updating the blog with news on it's progress. We are really pleased with the work that has been shown, we have had some great responses and have enjoyed working and making connections with all the artists involved.
