Oracle bones – Ruth Höflich
e-PERMANENT.org presents Oracle bones, a new work by artist Ruth Höflich. Oracle bones is a four-part video and text-based work created for online space, taking as its structure a juxtaposition of the natural elements: fire, water, earth and air.
Oracle bones is inspired by oral cultures and non-written forms of storytelling and aims to explore the relationship of language to territory. With this work Ruth Höflich will continue her ongoing interest in perception and language – how signs both verbal and non-verbal affect the parameters of ‘what is seen and experienced’.
Ruth Höflich (b.1976) is an artist and publisher currently based in London and Munich. Between 2002-9 she worked as one part of the artists‘ duo and collaborative platform Guestroom (with Maria Benjamin) and subsequently founded the occasional small press 8fold in 2010 due to publish the first issue of The Arrow Maker – a new journal for experimental writing in collaboration with London-based writer Isabel Waidner. Recent projects include Politics, Arcade Fine Arts, London, 2013; Tracing the Tacit, Wysing Arts Centre, 2013; Afterword Afterwards, Kunstraum Munich, 2012 and In Search of the Turn of the Backwash, The Banff Centre, 2011.
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