Stretching Fiction: in a language-based and visual artistic practice

Mike Croft

The project is a semi-graphic notification of the artist/author’s initiatives to stretch fiction – so-termed analogous to the stretcher component of an umbrella – in his language-based and visual practice. The referenced time-frame is from 2014 through 2025. The contention is that if one considers oneself as subject within one’s work, amidst whatever the work's more objective concerns, then it is a fairly obvious next step to third-person oneself – in the sense that a writer such as Fernando Pessoa invented heteronyms. While in visual practice such a prospect is, arguably, more difficult to articulate, a fictional element instilled in art- or other academic writing already has certain precedents in more experimental writing in the latter fields. If, as in the artist/author’s case, such writing is an adjunct to one’s visual practice, then a fictional characterisation of oneself as another can comment on and variously inhabit one’s visual work. Unlike how characters often populate fiction, however, the artist/author’s strategy is to only partly develop them, hence having them oscillate as, themselves, a question of relevance.

* DNA Ancestry continuation and conclusion + the author moved from Europe back to S.E. Asia

* Worked on Logical Square project; adaptation of Lacan's Logical Square to the question of the experiential process of artistic research

* Re-edited book-length manuscript titled and capitalised DRAWING - FICTIONS - TIME + extracted from it and re-formatted its element of creative fictional writing

* Has begun rewriting of the book-length manuscript, DRAWING - FICTIONS - TIME, aiming to reduce it to divide it into three volumes and increase its novelistic style

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