iam : Simon Morris

The Pelican Freud Library

Detail below of the revers of the poster. (double sided)

In this new work, re-writing Freud the artist Simon Morris has worked with the creative technologist Christine Morris to re-write Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. Freud's Interpretation of Dreams is fed into a computer programme.

The programme randomly selects words, one at a time from Freud's text and begins to reconstruct the entire book, word by word, making a new book with the same words.

THE ROYAL ROAD TO THE UNCONSCIOUS (2003)

In January 2003, eighty-three students from York College cut out every word from Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and as every word was cut from its sentence it was spoken.

On 1st June 2003, the artist Simon Morris threw the words out of the window of a Renault Clio on Redbridge Road, Dorset.

The action freed the words from the structural unity of Freud's text as it subjected them to an aleatory moment.Maurizio Cogliandro and Dallas Seitz documented the action as 333,960 words erupted from the window of the car. Dr Howard Britton, a psychoanalyst, directed them to any slippages or eruptions of the real that occurred in the reconfigured text.

bibliomania: a collection of international artists', art historians', curators', filmmakers', psychoanalysts' and writers' book selections that reflect their individual interests and practice. The exhibitions, the website and the publications present the participants' practice through the multiple sources that inform or contextualise it rather than the more traditional route of presenting their physical work.

The bibliomania project began in 1998. It is a collaborative project that includes the work of several hundred people. It has been exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and in the United States of America, as well as being published in two publications and on the world wide web. This is refering to the 2000/2001 version.

SUCKING ON WORDS

The lively conversations featured in the film are an ideal introduction to Goldsmith's witty and provocative works, already regarded as hallmarks of 21st century literature. In addition to debate and commentary, the film showcases readings from some of his most notorious books: No.111 (found phrases ending in an 'r' rhyme and filtered alphabetically by syllable count); Soliloquy (a transcription of every word Goldsmith spoke for a week); Day (a retyping of one day's New York Times); Traffic (a day's worth of hourly traffic bulletins); and The Weather (a year's worth of radio weather bulletins).

additional information
Filmed on location in New York City, February, 2007
Critical Commentary: Bruce Andrews, Barbara Cole, Robert Fitterman
Film & Lighting: Fiona Biggiero, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman
Film editor: Christine Morris. Sound: Jarrod Fowler
Original musical score: Rob Lavers, Design: Peter McGrath