speaking from the I eye

'speaking from the I eye' began with a simple structure; the idea was to create a series of public events that presented the work of a number of specific artist pairings. Each pairing that I put together would be made up of an artist who had made a film, and a writer who would produce a text in response – one based in Naarm (Melbourne) and one based in Brussels. This structure emerged from my desire to find relationships between both image and text, and Brussels and Naarm—spaces (artistic and geographical) I found myself in the middle of. This writing reflects on that. It is an attempt at making sense of what has occurred through this process. More than that, it is a proposition for a kind of speaking wherein truth and subjectivity lie close together. Speaking of film and of writing and their construction is a way of speaking of life and what it does to us, without forgetting, as Mike Sperlinger writes in his introduction to Ian White's essay collection, 'Here Is Information. Mobilise.', the ‘constant need to negotiate what kind of “us” we are or might wish to be.’