NB: | a text installation | 2020

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There was a text on this page.
From 27 May 2020, it began to disintegrate and disappear from this place.
From 30 June 2020, it began to reappear, transformed.
By 23 October 2020, it had reassembled, as an embodied texture of people and words.


Each one of the 15 phrases within the original text was put onto a badge.
These badges were sent to 15 volunteers from around the world, who stepped forward to be long-standing hosts of the work. Badges were chosen at random and, once a badge was sent, that phrase disappeared from the online text.

There is now no text left in the digital version. It all exists as isolated fragments, which take on their own significance, moving amongst us in the real world.

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NB: is a performative text work about the radical potentials of plurality, shifting, and occupying multiple spaces. That is, of being more than one thing. As of course we all are.

NB: was a commission from the Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality forum for Birkbeck Arts Week 2020: online.

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