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Much of Wendy
Kramer's recent work in collage is literally a reading-into the paths
and synapses of verbal and visual "information." If it is increasingly
the case that the world comes to be legible in the form of packaging, and
if the interior structures of our various bundles of code are increasingly
interchangeable — that is, dispensable — then one might see Kramer's work
as an attempt to recreate an interior on the outside, by means of spatial
and syntactical ripples, rips, and creases in the surface of cartons, envelopes,
advertising pull-out sections, and redundant multiple wrappers. Postal
instructions, candy boxes, and corporate logos are test tones, promising
an imminent message which never arrives. Kramer's art practice takes up
the implication of this disjunction, and takes these carrier signals as
themselves the form of the world's constant arrivals, not a series of delays,
missed connections, and static. Such work intends to change the channel
— not in the sense of consumerist choice, but as transformation. This is
at once a pragmatics, reading the only kind of messages one can finally
afford, and an erotics, anxious and celebratory at the constant interchanges
of surface and depth. Both of these modes find a common stance in their
demand that the world be what it has been saying all along.
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