Flatter, flatten: Erasure as a Political Gesture

Selections from Pseudocuments (2013), nihil vers (2014), and its Motors in service (a work-in-progress) will be read, along with previous projects, in order to trace how my practice of obliterating texts evolved from an ekphrastic, quasi-artistic play; to collaborative reflections on layers of meaning-making; and to critical interrogations of ridiculously reactionary documents. The craft talk will discuss the process of defacement via erasure, and how the product of such an act implies certain truths that the source text ironically covers up—incidentally or otherwise.