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Diagram is ‘marking with line,’ which implies ‘image-ness’ that is emphasized by most of the research on diagram. Notation is also ‘diagram’ in the sense that it means ‘to mark’ ( notare ). Like diagram, the significance of notation is based more on the ‘image-ness’ of the signs than on the writing of words. Nonetheless, diagram is more than ‘marking with line’. I argue that the game which the artists developed in the research-based artistic project  Transnotators  (2018–19), which I conducted at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) and Taipei Performing Arts Center, could bring forth a reinterpretation of notation as diagram. Diagram, as ‘writing(-gram)-through(dia-)’, could be reinterpreted as ‘writing through which one passes to another space’. In  Transnotators , the artists researched not only the different music and dance notations but also the notation of Chinese board game  qi  碁, which is one of the most ancient Chinese board games. Inspired by the notation of  qi , the artists developed a game with the signs devised from their own practice of music or dance. The signs of notation on paper placed in line on the ground become the ‘ways’ for the participants in the game. Taking steps one at a time along the ‘ways’, the participants are asked to interpret the signs as music or dance when they pass through the signs. The signs of notation therefore become ‘diagram’ in the most literal sense that they are ‘writings through which one passes’. Moreover, they are writings through which one passes to another space that is set up with the image-ness of the signs. Diagram is therefore more than writing. It is writing-through. It is more than marking with line. It is the line of writing-through for passing-through.

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