In June 2018 I started to branch out from the simple format of a folded A4 programme print. Artist-researcher Esa Kirkkopelto had started as the first supervisor of my doctorate and I prepared a re-iteration of my research plan for him to read. It was composed of two parts. The first was a programme similar to the previous Drafts 2, 4 and 5. The programme was the “text body”, which contained 17 footnote numbers as superscript entries. In between the programme, there was a 13-page research plan printed on A4 sheets and containing only footnotes, which respectively referred to specific words or sentences in the text body printed in the programme. I slipped the folded programme and the footnote document into an envelope and left it by the door of Esa’s office.
Media of reading: footnotes
This method parallelled my attempt to defer from staging something: with this gesture I deferred from writing a body of text (which would take the center of attention) and instead shift attention to the periphery of the page (as if from the stage to the auditorium). This format was thus to contribute to the polarity of outside and inside. I also wanted to express that my main interest are the live events, which escape the page and my writing can be only sidenotes to those events.
The term footnote refers to the page as a body (like the body of text), at the bottom of which is the foot. The footnote then is the part of the textual body closest to the ground.
