No Neutral Representations

No Neutral Representations (2011) is a large-scale silent still-image digital slide projection that presents a series of notebook pages, with associated postcards. Tracy’s notebook acted as a conversation piece between Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen. As artists who collaborated, they communicated with each other through the visual, the verbal and the textual. This work created space in which to convey meaning to each other through creative text-image strategies, as a way of exploring the central ideas and considerations in The Museum of Loss and Renewal.

The pages are developed playfully, highlighting aspects of signification and visualisation and spatial intersections where seeing and saying meet. Ambiguity, associativeness, interpretation, the poetic and the ekphrastic are modes that are employed, the pages opened out to audiences at chosen moments such as in the exhibition projects Loss Becomes Object and Object Becomes Subject (2011).