
The Lonnin Project
Making and Writing a Genre-Fluid Novel in Verse
Lori Diggle(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 26. January 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-90-04-53873-3 (ISBN)
Description
Lonnin, an English dialect word, means a shared and borrowed, unofficial, track. The Lonnin Project is deliberately genre fluid, designed to resist classification by algorithm - an illustrated verse-novel and account of a creative process in which images, objects and texts are mutually affective. A quest for belonging, and the fickleness of recall in a fragile world, affect key characters in the narrative and the hybrid Project, which, in its entirety, explores creative outputs as a reciprocal refinement between image and text, reversing the habit of thought that prioritizes creative writing over art production. Here text is provisional until the visual illustrations are settled. This creative strategy has been relatively unexplored and so provides a useful guide for practice-based researchers, particularly those interested in Performance Writing.
Unusually, the text initially precedes and provokes 3D artworks which claim to belong to characters in the novel. These objects are slowly hand-built from sustainable, repurposed materials to become the antithesis of 'merchandise', occupying a mythical realm between the invented world of the story and material reality, where lonnin claims history resides. The objects are then re-expressed as 2D illustrations, refined to become cyanotypes, which subsequently modify the writing that originally inspired them.
Unusually, the text initially precedes and provokes 3D artworks which claim to belong to characters in the novel. These objects are slowly hand-built from sustainable, repurposed materials to become the antithesis of 'merchandise', occupying a mythical realm between the invented world of the story and material reality, where lonnin claims history resides. The objects are then re-expressed as 2D illustrations, refined to become cyanotypes, which subsequently modify the writing that originally inspired them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-53873-3 (9789004538733)
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01/2023
Brill
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Person
Lori Diggle, Ph.D. (2018) Falmouth/UAL, has taught in Schools of Art in NZ and the UK and exhibited work in both countries. Her research focusses on relationships between histories and fictions in site responsive work about the past.
Content
Prologue: From the Atelier: Some Kind of Prologue
Lonnin
Epilogue: Some Kind of Epilogue
Lonnin
Epilogue: Some Kind of Epilogue