Noping
I went looking for my Nordic roots in the English language and found this sign:
/Þ/
Digital work activating transhistoric exploration of the letter /Þ/ obsolete in the English alphabet.
Also starting-point to the wider research, writings and artworks of Drift.
Opening section of my live performance Battles, Gru/Transtheatre, Geneva, 2014.
With Ingar Zach, sound and live percussion.
An unexpected tripping into English-language history. A poem in which noping is where nothing was.
Its a fine day • you step on to the top soil of your strata • you trip over some þing nearly makes you fall over • you look down but cant see any þing •
Text and project: CBergvall Audio recording: Graham Williams. Programming: Ciarán O’Meachair.
“Noping” was produced in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, as part of Triple Canopy’s contribution to the exhibition Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art, curated by Nora Burnett Abrams and Andrea Andersson and on view from October 12, 2012, to February 3, 2013. “Noping” was also published as part of Triple Canopy’s Internet as Material project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.