Timely traces / traces of time
This is the log of my postdoctoral research in the arts on Timely traces / traces of time from the 1st of January 2023 on:
2023
06/01/2023: online publication of Le dos-cul ment (text & image) on the-documents.org
Jan-feb 2023: first draft of 44 full text pages on 'sporen/traces', drawing on Ginzburg, Freud, Agamben, Lacan, Miller, Lispector e.a.
Februari 2023: closing the 'Seven Sins' working cycle started in 2022, working from collages to painted posters to ink drawings.
Feb-March 2023: closing preproduction of 'Fragments', a reflective montage book on comics and more to appear with infinitif.org
24/03/2023: Introductory presentation of postdoc research on Luca Research Day 'Becoming Image', Kunsthal, Ghent.
March-April 2023: editing of the text on 'sporen/traces', studio work on drawings in the wake of the 'Seven Sins' series.
May 2023: studio accrochage on 06 & 07/05 (Open Studio Days) and contribution to Reparative Research by Lore Smolders.
26/05/2023: Presentation of Passeport (5c) at L'Imaginaire, Brussels.
June 2023: first lay-out of 'Sporen' (t.b.p. 2024) and first approach of Derrida's concept of 'trace' through, amongst others:
Jos Defoort, Het woekerend schrift. Een inleiding op Derrida, Hadewijch, 1996
Jacques Derrida on Being in: Amy Ziering & Kirby Dick, Derrida, 2002 (online videofragment)
Rick Moore aka BlueSpectacles (struggling with) 'Derrida: About Trace', 12/06/2014 (online videofragment)
Lemmas: 'Trace (deconstruction)' on Wikipedia.org; 'Trace and play' on Literariness.org; 'The trace' on WhitesWritingWhiteness.ed.ac.uk; 'Derrida, la trace' on Idixa.net; 'Trace et archive, image et art' on Inatheque.fr
Charles Remond, 'Trace & mémoire - De l’écriture à l’animal, la trace chez Jacques Derrida', Canthel, Paris, October 2021
Camille Trimardeau, 'Trace & mémoire - écrire le geste', Canthel, Paris, October 2021
Laurent Milesi, 'Derrida and Posthumanism (I): From Sign to Trace' on CriticalPosthumanism.net, 14/09/2020
and articles by Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf, Timothy Secret, Alexandre Serres, Jean Greisch, Susan Sontag, Rafael Argullol, Carlo Ginzburg and La Voix et le Phénomène (1967) by Jacques Derrida.
July 2023: publication of my article on Ilan Manouach's conceptual comics as 'Collision #89' on Collateral - Online Journal for Cross-Cultural Close Reading.
July-August 2023: continuation of tracing the trace in Derrida and concerning the arts: Derrida's De la grammatologie (1967), Secret & Wilhelmi 2012, Hertrampf 2014, Birman 2007, Argullol 2003, Ginzburg 2003, Greisch 2003, Serres 2003, Sontag 2003, Vinciguerra 2018, Laufer 2004 etc. Writing on traces with regard to Cézanne, Twombly, Tal Coat, Meier-Castel, Broodthaers, Toroni, Grygar e.a.
May-September 2023: Reducing and reformulating scraps from the Seven Sins series and last studio accrochage.
September: late summer break and reading of Derrida's L'écriture et la différence (1967), esp. 'Freud et la scène de l'écriture.'
October: finalization of Rabiots - Restjes with Jan Baetens, a post-comics blowbook to be published by BLOW BOOK (La Crypte Tonique) end 2023. Continuation of second text on the trace throughout the arts.
November-December: publication of Rabiots-Restjes and final touches to Fragments (tbp) + publication of 'Aching, smiling, never really there: on Lore Smolder's Touch Response' on Image[&]Narrative.
2024
January: winter break.
Publication of Fragments and presentation in discussion with Tim Bruggeman and Lore Smolders around their recent publications Narcissus and Touch Response @ The Green Corridor, Brussels, 11/02/2024.
19/02/2024: moderation on 'Art & Law' public symposium on artistic practices, copyright etc. @ Wiels, Brussels.
11/03/2024: Hosting the 30th Anniversary Exhibition of comics publisher La Cinquième Couche around Conceptual Comics at Terrarium, LUCA Brussels until 24/03/2024.