Heather Gregg | Encyclopedia becomes air (1 minute) @heathergregg9975 | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
The video explanation for this short video is in a separate video: "Encyclopaedia becomes air: a book and art collaboration"
youtu.be/58k2h5xJDDU

I'm taking part with artist Matthew Herring @matthewherring8834 on his Encyclopedia Project - making the pages of an old Encyclopedia into a round sculpture - working through the alphabet.

You can see more of the project at its own website: matthewherring.net/encyclopaedia_ball.html

I was provided with a couple of pages in the "H" volume for inspiration - and became intrigued with the intermedial: where a variety of different arts crossover. So in this example, the letters are not static shapes on a page - that is just the foundation, the background - in this case, one of the encyclopedia pages. But the words become sounds so there is reading performance and embodiment, there is movement and with a dash of my trademark sense of absurd humour. Pronouncing different "h"s is a very physical things - if you try it yourself, you'll find tongue, palate, nose, throat, lungs and teeth are having a good workout.

Thankfully, I was able to work with an animator, Ben Gregg, who has a very good sense of stop-motion and so together we made the short film in about 6 hours.

Reading out loud moves us physically; reading silently can move our thinking.

My next creative writing workshop on "Words and Photos" runs online, on 22nd November. Details at Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/words-and-photos-tickets-729789729727?aff=oddtdtcreator

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