Score for a Reader: Ši, Book of Entities
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Language, HñähñúAbstract
Reading as a dynamic act resists contracting into the path of linear writing. In “Ši, Book of Entities”, different elements of reality create the unimaginable, each universe that materializes sometimes just to simply disappear – like the growth of a mushroom or the memory of childhood – constituting the multiplicity and polyphony of the living, shaped by its interdependencies. The book of entities is a book-organism fungi, its codes are inaccessible to human perception, the relationship that is established is affective as human and ‘other’ mutually modify each other. In an in-between of scientific and artistic research, the words of this text that can be read as arguments are interrupted by letters, phonemes, and QR codes. Through interruptions by sonorities such as tik, ši, or jo, categories of autonomy and equality are fissured, creating hybrid corporealities that reach beyond humanist understanding of time, space, and language.
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