COOP A-SCRIPT by Fia Backstrm

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COOP a-script is an artist book based on two performance scripts by Fia Backstrm, extending her exploration of visual and spoken language, global community, bureaucratic jargon, and mood and communication disorders. The first section of the book, Aphasia as a visual way of speaking, on A-production and other language syndromes, consists of a text written in four parts. When this work was performed at The Poetry Project in New York City, the artist organized the script across the venues floor and wall in a grid. To read the text, Backstrm moved her body across the floor, fragmenting the linear base structure of the text and inserting additional texts as her body made contact with the manuscript. Within this book, this process o