Textfields
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TextFields is an investigation into the metaphysical worlds between text and space.

We are interested in the possible forces that text can generate within a spatial and formal context.

Exploring the sensual energy of unfocused and charged textual forms, we want to understand where do fonts and space lose their limits, where do they become forces and vectors in a field, and where this field is perceived as a field for the unfamiliar; a field without a perceived centre, a field where the inherent qualities of both are dismantled, where the reader, the voyeur and the visitor are intertwined, and where in this lies the emergence of a field of text.

‘The Strata of the earth is a jumbled museum. Embedded in the sediment is a text that contains limits and boundaries, which evade the rational order…’
Robert Smithson, Sedimentation of mind, Earth Projects

Over the past few decades, we have argued the existential qualities and the fields of relations that a text generates in our metaphysical worlds. Text was assumed to be a work whose meaning can be found in the complex network of relations between its parts. But some have argued over the undecided nature of this network of relations and the laws that it’s governed by.

In the deconstructive theories, the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, did not believe that structuralists could explain the laws governing human signification and thus provide the key to understanding the form and meaning of everything from an African village to Greek myth to a literary text. He also rejected the structuralist belief that texts have identifiable ‘centres’ of meaning.

If one argues in the likes of Derrida, then one opens up infinite possibilities for constructing text both in content and form, where text loses its stable points and builds itself to an ever shifting field of relations.

As Roland Barthes explains in his work’ The Death of an Author’ in Image‐Music‐Text, ‘A text is not a line of words releasing a single theological meaning, but a multi‐dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.’

TextFields is a project originated by Amita Kulkarni, Jerome Rigaud, Rajat Sodhi and Vikrant Tike.
All of them involved are design professionals practicing architecture, parametric engineering, web and font design.

To contact us, please use: info@textfields.net