⁍ P R O J E C T S



litterish fragments lurk dormant

UU I Am UUas

To Hum and Haw;
A Conjugated Silence
A King Listens

Vounvoun de Carriero


Slide a Contest into a Context
 
 ⁍ C O L L E C T I O N S


the accursed share


Alain Roch


[...]


noting no thing 

abc école d’Ostende


obstaclef
 ⁍ T L S D  STTTTORE

A Score for A Case of Stairs

ConText
Reclaiming I in Institute &
Reclining  I in Institute


O.J.A.I.
Self-Institution/
Terminology Audit






2 office desks, 2 office chairs, bookmarks, poster announcing the lecture 'litterish fragments lurk dormant' in aluminum poster frame, framed photograph of 'A Prelude To a Death in Vencice', the printed text of 'litterish fragments lurk dormant' by Diane Copeley, black folder, TLSD stamp, framed typist poems (unknown author), 34 cardboard letters on white paper on cardboard, framed toner print on archive box, framed photograph of the series 'les poubelles pleurent aussi'.

In collaboration with Diane Copeley and Antoinette Jattiot.

The essay litterish fragments lurk dormant: On Letters, Litter & Loitering by Diane Copeley was voiced on the 13th of december by Antoinette Jattiot & TLSD in the exhibition Adresse/Address, Maison Des Langues, Boulevard d’Avroy 28-30, Liège (BE).

Photographs by Florine Lafontaine





On the collaborators

Diane Copeley is a professor of anthropological linguistics, Lacanian theorist, and pastime poet, whose work examines the intersections of language, embodiment, and dispossession. Her research explores how the voice - both object and act - negotiates the border between sense and excess, between the structured systems of language and their inevitable residues: waste, slips, ellipses, and repetition. Affiliated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), where she co-directs the research group Repetition, Ruin, Ritual, Copeley investigates how linguistic and material waste mirror the workings of psychic and social economies. As co-founder of the Belgian Society for Subterranean Research and Studies (SBRES), Urban Section, she studies the psychoanalytic dimensions of underground and marginal urban spaces, conceived as spatial metaphors for the unconscious. Her lecture litterish fragments lurk dormant (A lecture on letters, litter & loitering) extends this inquiry by addressing the politics of language in public space, tracing the passage from letter to litter to loitering - the movement from text to body to social exclusion. Drawing on Lacanian theory and the writings of James Joyce, Copeley proposes an ethics of linguistic drifting - a way of “strolling through language”, conceived as a refusal of productivity and a reclamation of what has been cast aside.

Antoinette Jattiot is a Brussels-based author and cura­tor with a back­ground in art his­to­ry and french-ger­man studies.

Particular inte­rests inclu­de the issues of still and moving ima­ges, con­cep­tu­al metho­do­lo­gies, lan­gu­a­ge, memo­ry and eco­lo­gy. She is fas­ci­na­ted by the poro­si­ty of the­se sub­jects at the cross­roads of art and the col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve prac­ti­ces resul­ting from the research. She is part of the col­lec­ti­ve (Denicolai & Provoost * NORD * Spec uloos * Antoinette Jattiot) who ima­gi­ned the sce­na­rio of Petticoat Government that will repre­sent Belgium at the Venice Biennale 2024. She is also public pro­gram­mes cura­tor at the La Loge art cen­tre in Brussels.