combination

By Alvaro Seica, 9 October, 2013
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Pages
293-304
Journal volume and issue
51.3
ISSN
0035-7995
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Abstract (in original language)

A história literária, considerando em particular a produção poética, regista algumas experiências cuja intenção é a de interferir na noção ocidental de livro, com o intuito de promover uma certa libertação dos constrangimentos tradicionalmente impostos pela materialidade da escrita. Neste contexto, o recurso a processos criativos alicerçados em estratégias aleatórias, combinatórias ou permutacionais tem-se revelado uma das formas de perseguir esse objectivo.

(Source: Author's introduction)

Description (in English)

The Fetch is a double-reading. Projected digital texts are read by one performer while the second performer searches the net for double texts which use the same combination of four word groups to be found in the projected text. ‘Fetch’ has a double meaning here. In Gaelic folklore, it is the wraith or doppelganger which is seen as a premonition of someone’s death. Secondly, The fetch cycle is the basic operation by which a computer retrieves and executes a program instruction from its memory. Thus the reading performs the theme, « Chercher le texte ».

(Source: http://chercherletexte.org/fr/performance/the_fetch/)

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