{"title":"404: The page you have entered does not exist","authors":"Caren Florance","doi":"10.54375/001/drhukk917e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54375/001/drhukk917e","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction + downloadable zine","PeriodicalId":311705,"journal":{"name":"Axon: Creative Explorations","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139355719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climbing back up your own silk string","authors":"Lizz Murphy","doi":"10.54375/001/gm3h46mpp1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54375/001/gm3h46mpp1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311705,"journal":{"name":"Axon: Creative Explorations","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139355968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mygrations, Migrations: A creative essay for an artwork","authors":"Nien Schwartz","doi":"10.54375/001/ujxymfi1vr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54375/001/ujxymfi1vr","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311705,"journal":{"name":"Axon: Creative Explorations","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139356078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Viewing Words","authors":"Ella Morrison","doi":"10.54375/001/hcb3qccm6q","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54375/001/hcb3qccm6q","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I will argue the value to be found in the visual analysis of text, drawing upon the artists’ books of Czech-born Australian artist Petr Herel (1943–2022) as case study. A seminal figure in the development and dissemination of the artist’s book in Australia, the complexity of Herel’s work lies in part through his use of text that conveys meaning without necessarily being conventionally ‘read’. This paper takes concepts rooted in traditional and conventionally rigid semiotic frameworks, including the relationship between text and context and the polysemy of meaning, and applies them in a flexible and contemporary approach that facilitates new visual analyses of the text present in Herel’s books. The artist’s use of unfamiliar alphabets, familiar alphabets and unknowable alphabets calls for a new iteration of analysis that encourages and celebrates visual meaning(s) from text.","PeriodicalId":311705,"journal":{"name":"Axon: Creative Explorations","volume":"161 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139356152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Object Permanence: How does the calligramme take place?","authors":"Toby Fitch","doi":"10.54375/001/klhrb6mjpl","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54375/001/klhrb6mjpl","url":null,"abstract":"This essay defines the poetic form of the calligramme (also known as the pattern poem, or technopaignia), provides a micro-history of the form in Western literature, before exploring how, with reference to Apollinaire’s Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916) and Foucault’s This Is Not a Pipe, the poems in Object Permanence: Calligrammes (Puncher & Wattmann/Thorny Devil Press 2022) took shape. It also explores how, via Goethe, the calligrammes use colour, and why, via Piaget, their taking shape is a kind of poetic object permanence.","PeriodicalId":311705,"journal":{"name":"Axon: Creative Explorations","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139355830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"92 Days of Winter: A mixed-media experiment embracing uncertainty and imprecision to locate reassurance in place","authors":"Rees Quilford","doi":"10.54375/001/3u1yu1gaiz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54375/001/3u1yu1gaiz","url":null,"abstract":"Our first COVID-19 winter was a time riven by doubt, suffering and existential uncertainty. For many, those experiences hampered, at least initially, our creative inclinations. However, with the benefit of hindsight, the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic have come to be associated with unexpected creativity. For me, a routine of visitation, documentation and mixed-media making provided a creative outlet to try and make some sense of the mass disruption we faced. Place, it has been said, is a site of self-identification (Gibson, 2015c) and where meaning is made (Plumwood, 2008) and so it was for me. Each day of that arduously uncertain first COVID-19 winter, all ninety-two of them, I visited Cape Paterson’s Bay Beach, an unpredictably beautiful and endearing parochial place on Australia’s southeast coastline. Using a routine guided by respectful visitation (Muecke, 2008) and aesthetic noticing (Brasier, 2017), I scribbled notes and took Polaroid photographs to document different aspects of that personally significant place. Heeding Ann Hamilton’s (2010) call to work from what you know but also what you don’t know, it was a routine that embraced ambiguity, imprecision and the affordances offered within mixed-form making methods. The resultant work, ‘92 days of winter: swimming, walking and watching’, encompasses lyrical mixed-media amalgamations chronicling a particular place, its character, and its indifference to a time of immense disruption. This essay offers a self-reflexive examination of how uncertainty, imperfection and hybrid making practices can offer affecting creative prompts when interrogating the complex, intimate and contested nature of personally significant places.","PeriodicalId":311705,"journal":{"name":"Axon: Creative Explorations","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139355977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Declarations","authors":"Peter Robinson, A. McDonald, Peter Swaab","doi":"10.54375/001/dad94hmb7u","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54375/001/dad94hmb7u","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311705,"journal":{"name":"Axon: Creative Explorations","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139356133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Every Book its Reader: Quarantine Public Library","authors":"Katie Garth, Tracy Honn","doi":"10.54375/001/0qa2xpzj6y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54375/001/0qa2xpzj6y","url":null,"abstract":"Quarantine Public Library is a US-based repository of books made by artists, which Tracy Honn and Katie Garth established in July 2020. The books in the library are for anyone to freely download, print and assemble—to keep or give away.","PeriodicalId":311705,"journal":{"name":"Axon: Creative Explorations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139355633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}