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Through the permutation of the five research fields:

colour, time, signal, language and possibility

an interconnected field of conceptual relations emerges:

 

COLOUR | TIME , TIME | SIGNAL 
POSSIBLE | LANGUAGE , LANGUAGE | TIME

 

are among the fundamental axes of LAb[au]’s artistic research.

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, transcoding

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installations
available, archive, in progress

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public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

 

linguistic monochromes
colour archives
colour etymologies

colour taxonomies
temporal pigments

invisible signals, visible colours
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colour as a field of knowledge


duration paintings
time words
visual palimpsests
temporal lexica
entropies

signals from another time
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time as a material 

 

extended perception
sensing through data
possible dimensions of reality
speculative meanings
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signals between the visible and the invisible
between established meanings and new senses

 

displayed glyphs

translated signals
possible language systems
emergent lexicons
saturated signs

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language between code and meaning

 

probable combinations
possible readings
stochastic landscapes
random orders
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emergent spaces of meaning

 

a cartography of


interconnected research fields
and relations yet to emerge


Colour entropy: colour transformed through duration

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Colour sensing: the invisible spectrum of light made tangible

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COLOUR | LANGUAGE
Colour models: colour defined through language

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Colour speculations: recombining characteristics of colour into new readings

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Colour tautology: self-referential relations within colour​

Colour sensing: the invisible spectrum of light made tangible

Colour entropy: colour transformed through duration

Colour speculations: recombining characteristics of colour into new readings

Colour tautology: self-referential relations within colour

WORTMISCHUNGEN, THE ARCHIVE

LAb[au]’s Wortmischungen colour archive, with linguistic colour combinations presented as indexed cards in grey filing cabinets.

Wortmischungen is an evolving colour archive generated through linguistic permutations. The letters of two colour names are recombined to form a third word: uran and beige, for example, become aubergine. While the operation follows linguistic logic, its results do not obey the rules of colour mixing, opening a semantic field of associations, ambiguities and poetic shifts.

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At the archive’s core, a taxonomy classifies colour names according to their etymological, cultural and historical origins. The anagrams are documented on index cards that function as conceptual-art protocols. The archive thereby turns the language and history embedded in colour names into both the subject matter of art and the starting point for possible artworks.

LIST OF RELATED PROJECTS

Wortmischungen, the Archive

Sprachmonochromien

What Colours Tell Us About …? — Language, Poetry and Philosophy

CONCEPTUAL SEQUENCE

Language as a Colour Model → Colour Names as Paintings → The Language of Colour as Tautology, Poetry and Philosophy

LIST OF RELATED KEYWORDS

Language-Based Colour Models # Anagrams # Colour Etymologies

# Chromatic Narratives # Colour Tautology # Colour Poetry # Colour Philosophy # Polysemy of Colour # Linguistic Monochromes # Semantic Colour Fields # Conceptual Abstraction # Linguistic Abstraction

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