Karl Holmqvist: making space

Acconci acts in many ways as a precursor to Karl Holmqvist's investigations into traded meanings and the deployment of text in both printed and performed formats. Looking critically at Holmqvist's work, we might return to the question posed by Acconci of how we are meant to understand text on and off the page, in performance, and what these changes in register do to the 'I' who is speaking, writing or borrowing.

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Melissa Gronlund is an editor of Afterall and a writer based in London. Focusing on artists' film and specifically on female filmmaking of the past 15 years, she teaches on the MRes: Moving Image course at Central Saint Martins and on artists' film at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford, where she is a visiting lecturer. She is also interested in the overlap between text and image in contemporary art.

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