media, video, inter-art, poetry, calligraphy, storytelling, performance, sign language, travel
media, video, inter-art, poetry, calligraphy, storytelling, performance, sign language, travel
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Jolanta Lapiak
Video
Halifax, Canada. 2006-07.
James Elkins uses the open-ended term graphein, which means "to write, draw, or scratch.. when the divisions we are used to did not exist... picturing and writing are both kinds of 'scratching' -- that is, marking on and in surfaces."
The Greek term gramma is, Elkins puts, a "word that means picture, written letter, and piece of writing... snap us out of our word-image trance..."
The creator is an Ameslan (or ASLian) literary media arche-creator, artist/artivist, media poet, storyteller, performance artist, and presenter/instructor in the mediums of video, performance, image, text, and sign language.