~~ // Typographic Notes (2020)  

Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock with photographer Gregory Lorenzutti 

Commissioned for Language, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne


 
 
  • For the Language Forum of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, on 19 October 2019, Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock presented the second issue of their Essays in Vibrational Poetics series. Framed as a serial publication, these performative essays experiment with embodied typography and sensorial texts. 

    The second issue {~~} ... , ... ; ... offered a translation through vibrational poetics of a phrase carved in Linear A, the undeciphered ancient script of the Minoans, introduced to Fayen and Benjamin by Dr Brent Davis, Lecturer in Archaeology in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne.

    ~~ // Typographic Notes (2020) is a parallel indexing project, documenting the abstracted typographic letterforms deployed in the issue. 

  • Photographic narrative within a publication

  • ~~ // Typographic Notes (2020)  was published in Language, Melbourne: Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2021, edited by Dr Kyla McFarlane.