Inneke Taal, replay, 2020, fineprint magazine INTERIORS Issue #22, moving image, 1:11 mins.

I was invited to respond to fineprint magazine’s issue INTERIORS during the early onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The work considers a personal relationship to language, an ongoing thread within my practice, and the heightened role of semantic disjuncture at this time. Taal addresses words as material subject to misplacement, error, reflection, and confusion, by layering the modes of speech, text and digital software in a rudimentary way to de-formalise a relationship to language.

To address a site I have far less direction over; a personal screen, I am aware of its very resistance to me, the maker. We are not as connected. The work and I. And this worries me. I have chosen to replay a short poem I wrote. Like the work I make in physical form, I am concerned with the fragments that make a whole. Like you and I. A search for my own way to reassert this sensibility within the digital space.