Egidija ÄŒiricaitÄ—
Artists’ books. between word and image. a relevance-theoretic perspective
My practice-related research furthers the discussion on artists’ books — and it’s peripheries, such as visual poetry — using the relevance theory of language interpretation as a framework to expand the conversation on multimodal art objects.
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Relevance theory is a cognitively orientated theory of pragmatics, which focuses on aspects of interpretation. It considers how attention gets captured; it then follows inferential process to describe the effects the reader may experience. As a linguistics theory, it is centred on written and spoken language, however, I believe that its fundamental ideas are extendible beyond pure language study and are particularly illuminating in respect to artists’ books.
The study is conducted using °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Special Collections and it is framed by a series of publications: artists’ books as well as projects, exhibitions, events, integrating theoretical research with my creative practice.
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Supervisors
Primary supervisor: Sharon Morris
Secondary supervisors: Robyn Carston (Dept. of Linguistics), Lesley Sharpe