Nevertheless, rejecting the idea of making an “adaptation”, we flaunted our indifference to “faithfulness” – to personality traits of characters, even their age similarity of events, and other elements usually considered in terms of faithfulness. Retrospectively, in the endorsement of mistakes – different, of course, since our medial position was different – we realised we were being loyalto Flaubert’s novel, in a specific sense: loyal to its aesthetical and political positions. Hence, I participate myself in this inquiry.Īs it happens, without being aware of this as an artistic issue, Michelle Williams Gamaker and I, when making Madame B (2013), have also made wilful mistakes, initially simply because they occurred, and we liked the effect, began to see the meaning that emerged from them, and thus the idea of examining mistakes more in general and in depth, began to dawn on me. Inevitably, in artistic research, the researcher, when an academic, also participates as an artist. Without endorsing the formal issues of diplomas, I have been involved in this, from the moment I realised the surplus value of making art as a form of analysing cultural issues. Attempts to bring academic analysis closer to artistic practice have been around for decades, but it remains somewhat problematic to avoid hierarchical thinking, which is unfortunately stimulated by the requirement that artists, if they wish to be teachers in art schools, earn a PhD. This inquiry is part of what is now commonly called “artistic research” – research of which the working method or mode is doing, making, that about which one has questions. Instead, I hope to make the case for the intertwinement of formal aspects such as the mistakes in question, and their political and aesthetic effects.
Nor is the discussion limited to formal issues. Thus, an intermediality emerges that is not a one-sided adaptation of one work into another, nor a translation of one artistic language into another, but a dynamic I would propose to call an intermedial conversation. Moving between literature, painting and film, I will examine if and how such effective mistakes can find their equivalents in other media without translating them and thereby distorting what each medium allows. In a triangular conversation, I will analyse some of such mistakes that seem typical within the use of the medium of each. For, there is more to this artistic behaviour than a self-reflexive attention to their own medium. The meaning of mistakes goes farther, become more complex, when we consider relations of difference between media. Below I will call on modernist painter Edvard Much to argue he also made such wilful mistakes. But other artists, including great ones, working in different media, did similar things. This is especially remarkable in the case of such a meticulous word artist. I will argue below that he wilfully made mistakes in order to shake up the automatism with which readers presuppose transparency in their routine use of language. He was unorthodox in his grammatical uses of verb tenses, the refusal of a plausible proportion of direct discourse, and the deployment of incongruous comparisons. One of the most perfectionist literary writers, Gustave Flaubert, made “mistakes”.
Get enough promotions, and well, Evan may very well find what killed his father.Draft article submitted for discussion to the conference Imperfection organized by Ellen Rutten, March 11-12, and for a seminar on intermedialities, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, on February 20 2019. Eavesdropping is also a useful tool to expand the dialogue branches, which in turn will help Evan make powerful alliances and friends (or enemies to backstab.) Earn enough reputation points, and Evan will be promoted. He can find items that will eventually assist in opening up new conversation paths with other characters. It's up to players to decide how they want to go about making enough cash each check to get by, but none of it is particularly savory – that's just kind of how it goes in the Beholder universe, after all.īetween collecting reputation and cash, Evan can also snoop around in coworkers' desks, file cabinets, and even bushes in the workplace. It may not be the most glamorous way to make a living, but that it does – and Evan has plenty of bills he has to pay to make sure his family stays afloat. Doing others' jobs will make Evan's easier, as he can earn plenty of reputation points and money to help work his way up to the top.
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