Chris Clarke / Anne Charnock, Cornerhouse Projects
Chris Clarke / Anne Charnock, Cornerhouse Projects, Manchester, UK (April 21 to June 16, 2006)This show includes the above work, Selected Writings (2002), a series of 10 framed envelopes each containing handwritten excerpts of essays about copyright, originality and authorship. These pieces of writing have been posted to my (former) address in Cork, Ireland. This process, know as a 'poor man's copyright' ensures that the contents of the envelope, while sealed, are property of the addressee. This work contains excerpts from the following writers: Kathy Acker, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges (x 2), Victor Burgin, Ciaran Carson, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva and Robert Menasse.
In addition to this work, the exhibition also features:
ibid. (2006): a shelf containing several books used in researching the piece in question, acting as a sort of physical bibliography to the sculpture. However, the books, their spines and titles, are turned away from the viewer, rendering this information inaccessible.
Statements (2005): two black and white photographs taken several years ago and re-worked with text embroidered across the images. The text quotes two statements from Ciaran Carson (from The Star Factory) and Roland Barthes (from Camera Lucida).
Un Identity (2002): an essay composed completely out of quotations from other writings. This work (originally written as an online essay at www.recirca.com/articles) uses 66 sources to create a (loosely) coherent article about subjectivity and expression, including Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth, Laura Mulvey, Kate Linker, WG Sebald, Paul Virilio, Robert Foreman, Pierre Klossowski, Sophie Calle and more.
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