
…sexuality and textuality; it aims to be anti-metaphorical, to escape the logic of modernism and postmodernism and express a pre-modernist, post-human morphogenetic aesthetics in all its wild sacred expressivity. Cannibalising…
…sexuality and textuality; it aims to be anti-metaphorical, to escape the logic of modernism and postmodernism and express a pre-modernist, post-human morphogenetic aesthetics in all its wild sacred expressivity. Cannibalising…
…the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry. Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Though her work…
…traverse and negotiate knowledge. This issue comprises a temporary assembly of individuals who are acutely and intelligently aware that what we choose to do with our bodies, how we express…
…an ‘untutored, rubbishy and scratchy aesthetic’ and delights in the ‘doodly thing as something that can sometimes express the things you can’t intellectually’. The Human Body is typical of Shrigley’s…
…writing and research-based projects, somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published. In this issue new writing, text and images,…
…writing and research-based projects, somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published. In this issue bodies of new writing present…
…writing and research-based projects, somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published. In this, the first issue, an interview, a…
…personal anecdotes together with art historical strategies and legacies to express a critical camaraderie in his subject. Cover Version features a selection of seminal publications from Monk’s extensive collection of…
…would express some of their life experiences. Patients at Ashworth are admitted on the authority of the British courts or from other prisons. Their crimes include murder, manslaughter, arson, kidnap,…
…Djinn Falls in Love (Solaris, UK, 2017). In 2016 Al-Maria presented ‘Black Friday’, her first US solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and was nominated…
When we are silent we are still afraid is a phrase from ‘A Litany for Survival’, a poem by American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. The image has been commissioned by Book…
…practiced a Whitman-by-way-of-Kathy Acker-esque shamanistic exorcism of American culture, using the web as source material for sampled stupidity and adolescent angst, hitting a crescendo with HOE #999: The Madcap Laughs…
…/ Author: Contemporary Artists’ Books, a touring exhibition organised by the American Federation of Arts. Itinerant Texts takes as its starting point the idea of the artist as itinerant worker,…
…and Fantasy Island (2007), took their starting points from the American house-truck movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the hand-built-shelters associated with the ‘back-to-the-land’ movements of the same period….
…previous novel, American Genius, A Comedy, was said to be, by The Millions, one of the best books of the new millennium. Other novels include Haunted Houses and No Lease on Life, a National Book…
…Tom Holert, and is designed by Peter Maybury. Following the American sociologist C. Wright Mills’ suggested practice of filing the ideas that compel you, then periodically unpacking, shuffling and spreading…
…Raja’a Khalid, Omar Kholeif, McKenzie Wark, Simon Sellars, Francesco Pedraglio and Lena Tutanjian. Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist and writer based in London, UK. Her memoir, The Girl Who…
…artists’ interventions. Ten alien invaders are categorised and illustrated, including: the American Bullfrog, Giant Hogweed, Spanish Bluebell and Wels Catfish. In the manner of a scientific guidebook each entry lists,…
Various works for the artist created from existing copies of JET magazine referencing the role of black Americans in US history, and also referencing the work of Josef Albers. The…
A unique installation of books contained within a huge steel framed case. The secondhand books were collected by the artist with subject matter connected to American history. Each book was…
…and seeks to express it. It’s also kind of written, in a way, in collaboration with its audience. So, there’s lots of submissions and interviews, and kind of write-ins and…
…artist book in the US and in Europe took on this very particular kind of expression. It’s quite a reductive expression, as you can see from the graphic perspective. But…
…to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published. It has provided a genuinely open space for artists and writers to experiment and develop in a structure…
…Peter Maybury. Following the American sociologist C. Wright Mills’ suggested practice of filing the ideas that compel you, then periodically unpacking, shuffling and spreading out the contents in search of…
…Leigh script re-penned with the deft conversational dynamism of American novelist Barry Gifford, Licorice brilliantly foregrounds and realises its own folk through chaotic streams of both spoken and internal dialogue,…