Entre Pausas is based on the daily scrutiny, collection and transcription of selected material from the online version of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador (The Spectator), 2012 to 2014. The collection of the material always follows the same process: only the daily ‘flash news’ items were collected because of the high number of daily incidents they register in a dramatised version of reality that renders complex problems in a simplified and alarming form. When reading the rolling news, the reader sees a disarray of accounts, obsessive repetition of the same, unedited images and texts, and a collapse of distinctions between actual information, rumour and speculation.
The action undertaken in this work consists of reading the selected newspaper daily and as soon as the news is selected, gathered and categorised, it is transcribed through the erasure of all its words, leaving only the punctuation marks – the layout of the online newspaper is left unaltered. The procedure is repeated daily and it indexes the constant tension engendered by the impossibility of reading and understanding. In this way, the continuity of this gesture of erasure as transcription will present the news in the form of broken language, a text without the text, where the news is only approached within its omissions and repetitions, spaces, periods, commas, and question marks, impossible to decipher.