A blue shirt collar
Introduction
A blue shirt collar refers to a set of interconnected projects. They are all based on a corpus of text fragments. From these fragments occur performances, charts and publications.
Fragments
The narration of A blue shirt collar is about the everyday, romantic, family life of a young artist who writes. He combines his obsessions to little things observed on his own or through his smartphone screen. The text is a flow of fragments drawing a compound self-portrait. It highlights the difficulty of communicating, being understood and existing in a conventional society.
Performances
A selection of about 35 fragments from the A blue shirt collar text is read in a luminous and an intimate scenography. My back against the wall, I melt into the white shapes of the projected light. These shapes vary depending on the read fragment. The performance opens and ends on a circular target on the wall. It seems to say “you are here” like a map at the exit of the subway. The target fills and empties itself with white light, the focus is done, then undone.
Charts
To understand what I’m writing about, I represent graphically and statistically the text A blue shirt collar. The cells of the chart represent the fragments according to their lenghts and are colored according to the “theme” they were sorted in.
Publication
In preparation for my final examination, I decide to compile all written fragments as well as the chart which represents them in a publication.
Texts about: A blue shirt collar :
• "Texts" / "A distant friendship for oneself" by Jean Calens (2017)
• "Texts" / Text for Baleapop #8 by Audrey Teichmann (2017)
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