How a work takes shape
Materials, writing gestures and the artist’s own account offer another way into a work.
Explore the processMultimodal Field / A field of encountersImage · Text · Sound
001 / BEGIN WITH A WORK
Why Talisman
“I only want to ask one question”
A painting. Calligraphy on talisman paper. Four lines of poetry.
An invitation into sound and the work as a whole.
Painting · 126 × 126 cm · 24 Oct 2021
Look. Listen.
Let relationships emerge.
Painting, writing on talisman paper, text and sound unfold in their own ways, while forming new relationships with one another.
Explore the ideasEnter through the works
01 / WORKSPAINTING
Painting & Image
Form, colour and composition offer an experience of looking in its own right.
View Why Talisman ↗CALLIGRAPHYTalisman-paper Calligraphy
Words on yellow talisman paper become gesture, space and material.
View the calligraphy ↗TEXTText
Read the words themselves and explore how they appear in different forms.
Read the poem ↗SOUNDMusic & Sound
Another way of sensing and expressing, unfolding in time.
Listen to Why Talisman ↗Art in everyday life
ART EDITIONSSix design studies from the Why Talisman series explore colour and line on T-shirts, shirts, ties and everyday objects. Photographs of physical products and shop links will follow as they become available.
02 / RELATIONS
Connections can also
be reconsidered.
Who creates the relationship between an image and a sound?
Can words be separated from their written form?
What remains when a connection is refused?
The proposed experiments explore choosing, connecting, replacing and disconnecting. Materials may also remain independent.
Explore the proposed experimentsIn development · Design outline only
From practice to reflection
03 / NOTESHow relationships take shape
An evolving discussion of multimodal art, from modes of expression and relationships to participation, rights and rules.
Explore ideas & the ConstitutionThe Why Talisman guide and the art editions section are now open.