‘These texts are lunges to capture handfuls of another time and place while passing through it in the curious guise of a witness to my own crimes.’

‘Looking and writing on the slippery stage of memory is as uncomfortable as it is mysterious, especially when chronicling one's own works.’ – Brian Catling

The Blindings is a description of a group of works and performances made between spring 1993 and winter 1994, revisiting them after the event in order to reconfigure them for the printed page as a modulated sequence of handwriting, description and print.

The texts for The Blindings are handwritten: each of which contains a pronouncement that a fluid, gas, suspension or extract has been injected into the eye; manipulated photographs are used to corroborate the truth of this fiction. A solid sans-serif type is used for the sections of the books that were actually spoken whilst a lighter serif is used to describe the performances and the intentions behind them.

本書[The Blindings]は、1993年の春と1994年の冬に行われたグループパフォーマンスの叙述になっている。テキストは手書きで、液体／気体／懸濁液／抽出物などが目に注入されることを表明した文章になっており、挿入された写真はこのフィクションが真実であることを強調する役割を担っている。
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