We’ve all experienced reading a couple of chapters of a book, or a third of a book, but have you ever read just the top third of a book?
Three artists– Jason Dean and Matthew Nash and Lee Walton are collaborating on a project to speculate just how much information you can obtain from doing just that. The project is currently on display at Suffolk University in Boston. Here’s a press release on their efforts —
For the Book
Club, these artists have combined their efforts to take a
humorous look at how we experience moments in the world,
and what it takes for a group to combine those unique
moments into a full story. The first step was to find a mystery novel that was
completely unfamiliar to all three artists. After
selecting “The Strange Case Of Miss Annie Spragg” by Louis
Bromfield (London, 1928), the novel was sliced horizontally into thirds…top,
middle and bottom.
Each artist was then given a section to read from start to
finish, thus experiencing only an fraction of
the entire story. This made the “The Strange Case” even
stranger.
Later, on June 4, 2006, the artists convened at the library
of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons. With the cameras
rolling, they each used their limited understanding of the
book to help solve “The Strange Case Of Miss Annie Spragg”.
For this exhibition, the three collaborators
present a 3-channel video installation documenting their
solution of the strange case. They have created a library
in thirds, mirroring the three sections of the book and the
three perspectives brought to the final solution.
1/3 of the facts
My friends and I are VERY interested in how this turns out…
Re:1/3 of the facts
I’ve asked one of the artists, Lee Walton, to please let us know…as we’re all curious as to the outcome. Hopefully he’ll post a response.