Contextualisation of an unpublished document as visual poetry, text collage and experimental writing: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016)

Turtola, Niina Marjatta

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to contextualise an unpublished document Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) with the concept of text collage to enable re-visioning and returning to the document beyond the semantic and written content. Therefore, I will look at the construction of the document, identify and describe the typographic layout and discuss the document as a method of both designing and writing. One key concept has been researched and identified which is text collage and the document will be discussed as text collage and connected to the canon thereof with samples of similar works. The results of document construction, writing and designing show that the ready-made textual fragments used in Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016) open audiences a new typographic potential to understand and imagine the societal production of texts in both writing and visualisation of writing. Therefore, text collage is not only a visual and formal device, but it is used as a magnet to draw the audiences closer to reading the strangely written text that is composed of textual fragments. All this with a purpose of being offered the document as an alternative space, that is open for interpretation. Therefore, a text collage and materiality of typography can be seen as a door to re-envision ready-made texts anew and from there on, to reimagine societies on a larger scale anew.

Citation

Turtola, N. M. (2023, November). Contextualisation of an unpublished document as visual poetry, text collage and experimental writing: Tate Jukka and Pekka (2016). Presented at AOR2023: The eighth Art of Research conference 2023, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

• Presentation Conference Type: Presentation / Talk
• Conference Name: AOR2023: The eighth Art of Research conference 2023
• Start Date: Nov 30, 2023
• End Date: Dec 1, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Aug 15, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Nov 30, 2023
• Publication Date: Nov 30, 2023
• Deposit Date: May 1, 2024
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: artistic research, document, typographic experiment, text collage, experimental writing