A Collaborative Diversion
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-MA1
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Textshop Experiements
- Article number
- 10
- First page
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- Volume
- Winter 2016
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2377-9039
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop02
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- A Collaborative Diversion operates within the field of performance writing and is a ‘game’ played between the artistic double act matthews AND allen. Prior to their language games matthews AND allen establish a set of rules. The rules of this game stipulated that matthews AND allen must produce a series of textual digressions by selecting a word from each definition to generate a supplementary meaning, each definition serving to alter the trajectory. matthews AND allen’s use of citation adopts the concepts of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, where established configurations are unsettled. Deterritorialisation is that which breaks or fractures an established system and operates under the precondition that meaning is never fixed. A Collaborative Diversion problematises the totalitarian voice of the author through a process of digression from quotation to quotation, utterance to utterance, voice to voice. These digressive movements perform the stuttering and stammering of language where no single perspective attains authority.
Academic journals, in recent years, have acknowledged the relevance of creative/qualitative research as both a method to understand our cultural positioning and as a contribution to cultural studies as an academic discipline. This journal article is an exploration of appropriation which directly alters language systems. Within a contemporary digital context where ‘cut and paste’ processes are ubiquitous, this research output provides a significant comment on how the plagiaristic tendencies of digitality may be adapted to form innovative approaches to writing. This research paper was written in collaboration with Dr Helen Matthews and the text attests to the potential for appropriation to yield a new forms of ‘parapoetic data’ and thus contribute to the field of performance writing. An addendum was published alongside this performance text as a critical and contextualising statement.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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