25 January 2021

VEXICON 2: Signs as signs as signals

Framing is how chaos becomes territory.
-- Elizabeth Grosz, following Deleuze

Sign as message, code fragmented. Agitated. Messy. A rattled multiplicity. “The signal is breaking up.” An old language reclaimed. Re-mapped.
VEXICON 2 looks into the gap between display and the re-cognition. The material labor; the incisive, mercurial evidence.
You view my view: fleeting image-signs sliding sideways as the light shifts. As colors meld, fade. As the signs’ torn-edged and hermetic claimings occupy public places. As undeniable ideogrammatic instigators.
VEXICON 2: an assemblage of 54 photo-images in public places, Eugene, Oregon, October-December 2020: