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Tia Madden
| I am an artist and writer whose installations, texts, and drawings examine the overlap between drawing and writing. Interested in how humans encode, preserve, and transmit knowledge through mark-making, I consider how marks can be misperceived over time, where their original knowledge may be reshaped, or entirely misread, as a result of being recontextualised. Working across creative non-fiction and the expanded field of drawing, I build on traditions of mark-making and asemic poetry, as well as the languages of abstraction and undeciphered writing systems, to consider how visual forms preserve and transmit information. In doing so, my work aims to activate, engage, and destabilise the meaning-making process, considering the communicative potential of abstract marks when they are framed - or misread - as carriers of hidden meaning. |
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| Misreading Mis/reading 2024 Misreading Mis/reading is a speculative, creative-non-fiction essay about illegibility. By comparing ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to modern-day graffiti, the essay raises questions about how a mark 'becomes meaningful', and what happens if future civilisations encounter, and misread, any marks we leave behind. Our marks might narrate a history that never happened, and they might come to mean something we may never have predicted; a result of the close visual link between drawing and writing. The work is inherently tied to my recent artists residency in Cairo, Egypt, in late 2023, and is connected to my current artistic research into the communicative potential of abstract marks. Read |