HORIZON.  NO  HORIZON.  
 
CECILIE  BJØRGÅS  JORDHEIM  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual Writing 035
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2011
 
 
Horizon. No Horizon.

The Poetry of Repetitive Vertical Movement (at Sea)

Horizon. No Horizon. seeks to understand the connection between the visual

and the auditory—both synesthetic and graphical—and to discover the
Wittgensteinian theory of isomorphic relations between the idea and the
world.

Formalisticly it examines how movement can be materialized in 2D on paper.

Drawn symbols throughout history such as letters, numbers, notational scores
for music, typography, choreographic notations and cartography are all
examples of the humanityʼs need to systematize and describe the world.
Linked to Surrealist automatic writing, these drawings are produced from
YouTube clips all from the same category: documenting voyages in rough
seas, always from the bridgeʼs point of view. We witness how the sea makes
the ship rise and fall in large waves. The horizon appears and disappears.
The drawing of a boatʼs repetitive vertical movement at sea seeks to be a
score of movement; that also carries the possibilitiy to be reproduced in
sound.

Each postcard-sized score, first presented in an installation entitled NAUSEA,

takes the name of the YouTube video from which it is transcribed. The
postcard format is a nostalgic view on the traditional rites one does while
traveling; one goes away to exotic and new places and writes home about
experiences and new knowledge. Only one generation ago, sailors were the
ones to break with the expectations of society. The classical Dream of the Big
Blue Ocean was to challenge oneself and experience something other than
everyday life.

In Jean-Paul Sartreʼs debut novel La Nausée / Nausea the main character,

Antoine Roquentin, rebels and is nauseated by the thought of being pushed
into a secure, and socially accepted, life. He clearly wants something more in
life than to honour objective values of the bourgeoisie. Etymological speaking
the English word nausea is directly linked towards seasickness as it derives
from the Greek word naus meaning ship.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual Writing: Documents in Concrete and Visual Poetry

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