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. I address 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.