Bart Le By
Visuelle Poetik des LAKONISCHEN
Based on the novel by Herman Melville "Bartleby" and complementing Gilles Deleuze "Bartleby and the formula" a leporello was created, which is to represent the life and the story of Bartleby and his "companions".
The leporello is symbolic of a time beam and represents the life stage in which the two protagonists meet and stand opposite each other; As in the Leporello on the one side Bartleby stands and opposite him his boss, the lawyer. To further symbolize this overlap of their life-ways, the pages of the Leporello also overlap each other, that is, one side of Bartley interspersed with one side of the lawyer and glued to each other. Furthermore, the leporello can be viewed openly as a ray or page by page as a book. It is also free, with which protagonists one wants to start, each has its own beginning and can also be considered independently of its opposite.
The respective pattern, which only accompanies the observer in one piece at the beginning, is intended to symbolize the confusion or the chaos / feeling, to which one is also drawn as a reader. The attorney is still somewhat straighter than Bartleby; So one thinks at the very beginning. Bartleby is from the beginning the "strange" and "cracked".
The attorney is to act as a redundant part to the laconic Bartleby. The portrayal on his side of Leporello is intended to show his sentiment, his turmoil, and his to-and-fro, and how his madness increases, and not that of the alleged madman Bartleby.
Bartleby is the Laconic, who apparently does nothing but live physically and give his formula. His depiction does not show any more as necessary and still stands as a strong symbol for him: the ECG curve, without further disturbing supplements, figuratively as textually. An ECG curve (electrodiagramm) is the recording of the sum of the electrical activities of all cardiac muscle fibers.
Thus, this ECG is intended to symbolize Bartleby's life, which consists precisely of the formula, and from his heart tones the writing, his typical sentence, "I would rather not." This ECG symbol also symbolizes Bartleby's pure existence and to quote Deleuze: "Bartleby has the right to survive, be as beeing and nothing else. The man without past and future; he is instantaneous." Therefore, everything begins and ends with this vital curve.And because this formula is especially vital to Bartleby, and at the same moment as he expresses this formula and rejects something that is not wanted, the action itself has already been absorbed and Bartleby is thus actually impossible, this life/heart jump curve stands for.
The blank pages at the end symbolize that the life of the lawyer goes on, you do not know how, but it goes on. At Bartlebys site this stands for his death, with which everything ends and nothing comes, his life is over. Thus, the same thing (blank pages) does not mean the same thing; For example, Bartleby is named as a vagrant and put in jail. Yet the lawyer is on his "flight" the vagrant, who lives in his carriage.
A single side is 168 mm × 120 mm
12 cm × 32 single sides = 3.84 meters per character
Total 7.68 meters of paper,224 g / m² white, acid-free drawing paper, LineArt
Font: Consolas as well as for the title and the Stencils Helvetica Neue (OTF) each in different cuts
A black band has been chosen as the closure for the leporello, which, like the titles itself, covers the three-digit Bartleby lettering; it can be opened and closed by four magnets attached to the rear.In addition to all this, a 1:50 minute video was created showing the ECG curve and how it gradually builds up and goes through to the zero line; accompanied by an instrumental by Massive Attack "Teardrop". This song was chosen because it not only seemed to be a good fit, but also because there is a slight double beat in the beat, which in this case should remind you of a heart beat.
12 cm × 32 single sides = 3.84 meters per character
Total 7.68 meters of paper,224 g / m² white, acid-free drawing paper, LineArt
Font: Consolas as well as for the title and the Stencils Helvetica Neue (OTF) each in different cuts
A black band has been chosen as the closure for the leporello, which, like the titles itself, covers the three-digit Bartleby lettering; it can be opened and closed by four magnets attached to the rear.In addition to all this, a 1:50 minute video was created showing the ECG curve and how it gradually builds up and goes through to the zero line; accompanied by an instrumental by Massive Attack "Teardrop". This song was chosen because it not only seemed to be a good fit, but also because there is a slight double beat in the beat, which in this case should remind you of a heart beat.