Reflection on digestion / Amanda Couch.

"A durational performance, Reflection in Digestion, at Book Live! originates this manuscript through the performative act of copying and re-writing of texts made on a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching, reflections on research as practice, and personal and phenomenological narrative. Reading, in medieval times, argued by Carruthers in The Book and the Body, was 'a bodily performance', rather than simply the decoding of words on a page. Similarly, Reflection in Digestion reconnects the body (of both writer and viewer) with writing through the action of the scribe, reading, consideration, translation, and the act of copying reconstituting a relationship arguably severed by the invention of the printing press. Reflection in Digestion, lasting for 10 hours, documents the process of performance, of thinking and writing, of copying and remembering whilst simultaneously recording the body's shifting emotional and physical states through the loops and garlands of the handwriting itself." --artist's website.