Ali e t o lo ss

• Erasurist art is essentially a kind of rewriting. It is rooted as much in contemporary philosophy’sdeconstructionistturn as in Duchampian foundobjects and Situationist détournements. One of the earliest examples of textual erasurism in contemporary poetry is Ronald Johnson’s 1977 RADI OS, a partial obliteration of the first four books of John Milton’s Paradise Lost preserving only a few words from each page of the source-text. Ali e t o lo ss subjects Lewis Carroll’s Ali(c)e T(hr)o(ugh the) Lo(oking Gla)ss to a similar treatment,revealing the lyrical backbone of the source-text,isolating some of its vital semantic «organs» whilesimultaneously responding to the deep and complexforms of Elisabeth Waltregny’s photographs, whichwere themselves inspired by Lewis Carroll’s specularworlds. Each poem is composed of words taken fromone of the twelve chapters of Alice in the order inwhich they appear, the line breaks indicating the«gaps» in the source-text.

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HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Bildkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Visual Arts (hsv//eng)

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erasurism

intermediality

Alice Through the Looking Glass

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Visual Culture

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