Writer's / Diary - Alison Marchant

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Virginia wrote during “her calm periods” between “regular bouts of mental illness” and it is likely that her illness both hindered and fuelled her creativity and productivity. In her diary she makes notes about her depression preventing her working, though on other occasions she notes writing at considerable speed. I have removed all references to characterisation to leave just Woolf’s text transcribing her inner spontaneous thoughts on reading and writing, which takes her work into another space — that of Conceptual writing as art in the 21st century. The slash at the centre of the title of the new publication refers to the splicing of analogue film and audio tape, as Virginia Woolf’s diary is edited like a cut-up text.