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Edited
by spouses Seth and Chelsea McKelvey, S/WORD (variably pronounced
“sword,” “s
word,” “sslashword,” etc.) arises from the belief of a singular truth
in Word: that it is living and powerful, sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit.
Crossing
out (or, more accurately, crossing over) is not an erasure or
elimination; it does not render the word illegible. Rather, it
invites you to read, and subsequently asks you to consider what you
have read as flawed. It indicates a change in one’s mind,
showing
not just the before and after, but the change itself, the space in
between. It shows process and progress, insofar as regress is
necessary to progress.
S/WORD
seeks impossible expressions of beauty and power in
language. Only
in light of such failed attempts is it a worthwhile
endeavour to cut and pierce, to show the malleable frailty of
words. It is the firm belief in seeing the unseen, the
contradictory
capabilities and limitations of language.
S/WORD
is concerned with the dissolution of language, its breaking point, so
that we may know the Word through apophasis.
S/WORD
exists as a record of these fragments, these shards, these partial
reflections. It is a work in progress, a training ground for a
community of artists.
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