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“I have made a mark, and I do not know whether I am drawing or writing. I am thinking about marks and how they collect on a surface. I have accumulated marks, and I believe that this accumulation is at once a drawing, a text, and an archive. I am thinking, as I am so often thinking, about the proximity of writing to drawing. I am also thinking about how archives are always already oriented toward the future. What is the archive but that which awaits activation? I am wondering about the ways in which drawings are active, are records of activity, are anticipatory. I am wondering about the difference between acting, recording action, and awaiting activation.”
—Steffani Jemison, 2019
Moving freely between mediums, Steffani Jemison explores how the human body absorbs and communicates knowledge. Both extending and challenging the precepts of conceptualism, Jemison works with drawing, sound, text, video, movement, and...More
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“I have made a mark, and I do not know whether I am drawing or writing. I am thinking about marks and how they collect on a surface. I have accumulated marks, and I believe that this accumulation is at once a drawing, a text, and an archive. I am thinking, as I am so often thinking, about the proximity of writing to drawing. I am also thinking about how archives are always already oriented toward the future. What is the archive but that which awaits activation? I am wondering about the ways in which drawings are active, are records of activity, are anticipatory. I am wondering about the difference between acting, recording action, and awaiting activation.”
—Steffani Jemison, 2019
Moving freely between mediums, Steffani Jemison explores how the human body absorbs and communicates knowledge. Both extending and challenging the precepts of conceptualism, Jemison works with drawing, sound, text, video, movement, and...More
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