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Nicholas Thurston, Historia Abscondita: An Index of Joy, 24 pages ISBN 978-0-9553092-6-7, £7.50
175mm x 105mm
“These word lists stand as signposts to an intellectual terrain recoverable only speculatively, through indexical trace. Nietzsche the author is long vanished from this text, which is based upon a posthumous translation of The Gay Science, and the loss of history that is a central theme of that book becomes enacted in this Index of Joy. All we have here is what is left behind…A conceptual work that enacts its polemical operations through a deceptively simple device, Nicholas Thurston’s Historia Abscondita uses visual and material references to call forth the associative process through which the impossible task of recovery is provoked.” – Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Derek Beaulieu’s Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, featuring an Afterword by Marjorie Perloff (110 pp, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9553092-5-0). £12.50
215mm x 140mm
“As the Greenbergian modernists proclaimed the flatness of the canvas, so Derek Beaulieu reduces the page to a flat plane. The result is a new kind of flatness—call it non-illusionistic literature—a depthless fiction, one where image and narrative is reduced to line and shadow. In the great tradition of Picabia, Beaulieu creates a perfect work of mechanical writing with one foot in the concrete poetic past and another in the flat screen future.”
—Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Day & Founding Editor of UBUweb
sucking on words DVD (2007)
£19.95 including postage and packaging
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).
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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
The Pelican Freud Library
double sided print
2007
B1
1000mm X 707mm
£135 incl. postage and packing
Reading the Remove of Literature (2006)
288pp
£19.50 including postage and packaging
“Reading the Remove of Literature is an edition of Maurice Blanchot’s L’Espace littéraire, although not a word of Blanchot’s text remains. Every page of his book has been assiduously erased by Nick Thurston. At the same time, Thurston has preserved his own marginalia, reset in the face and fonts of the original text…By removing Blanchot’s text, Thurston paradoxically gives us Blanchot’s work; he presents rather than absents language. Reading the Remove of Literature takes its place in a small but remarkable group of artists’ books that purport to present footnotes to absent texts, offering largely blank pages and notes keyed to empty space. But the central texts which those books claim to annotate are almost always fictional; Reading the Remove of Literature distinguishes itself — point de source — by removing an actual text. In this respect, the closest analogue to Thurston’s book may be Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing.” – Craig Dworkin, editor
112pp
£18.50 including postage and packaging
112pp
Thesaurus Scienta Lancastriae is a collaborative work between six-year old Jack Aylward-Williams and his father Robert Williams. In this book, Jack explains the world to his father, an artist and academic, who translates its cosmology to the reader. This project uses Williamson’s Park in Lancaster as a microcosm of the world, encompassing disciplines of geology, botany, zoology, physics, arboriculture, anthropology and many others. Thesaurus Scienta Lancastriae was shortlisted for the prestigious AXA/Art Newspaper Exhibition Catalogue Award.
32pp
£12.50 including postage and packaging
There are three bookworks in the artist Sharon Kivland’s new series, Freud on Holiday. They all concern her particular relation to the work of Sigmund Freud. Through photographs and essays, Kivland’s books re-imagine journeys made (and sometimes dreamt) by Freud to European sites of archaeological importance.
In the first book in the series, Freud Dreams of Rome, Kivland explores the longing for Rome which Freud felt as he worked on his seminal project The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud dreamt of visiting Rome four times before actually getting there – when his experience of Rome shifted from the imaginary to the real. Kivland’s book creates an uncanny atmosphere, as do the images, allowing the reader to take a dérive through Freud’s imagination. The images - introduced as ‘Freud’s holiday photographs of Rome’ - are rather strange. They show no people. They are oddly cropped. They reveal only impasses, dark courtyards, angles of buildings. They appear as plates, tipped-in after the printing of the book. Their source is uncertain. The text appears to be a conference paper, with sudden asides and peculiar distractions.
A Disturbance of Memory
186 pages, softback, sewn, with screen printed dust jacket, 230mm x 150mm, 35 black and white photographs, 15 black and white illustrations, £19.99
Sharon Kivland, A Disturbance of Memory, from the series Freud on Holiday, Volume II. Introduction by Craig Saper, Greek translation by Maria Skamaga, ISBN 978-0-9553092-3-6 (UK)
Like Sigmund Freud and his brother Alexander, Sharon Kivland and her sister go on holiday together each year. In Trieste in 1904 SF and his brother determine to go to Corfu but are told by their host it will be too hot and they should go to Athens instead. Any change of plan seems impractical, but they succeed in booking tickets for Athens. When Freud arrives in Athens and stands on the Acropolis he is surprised to find himself thinking: 'So all this really does exist, just as we learnt at school!' His surprise is twofold; firstly, that something unbelievable exists, and secondly, that its existence should have been in doubt. In A Disturbance of Memory, SK and her sister, accompanied also by SK’s son, follow the Freud brothers to Trieste and Athens, but are frequently diverted by other traces, including those of James Joyce, Jacques Derrida, Ulysses, and Italo Svevo. There are photographs and drawings of uncertain origin, and descriptions of food, trains, and family romances. The English text is followed by a Greek translation.
l'esprit d'escalier
£10.00 including postage and packaging
L'esprit d'escalier
(the wit or mind or spirit or phantom on or of the
stairs) is a revised version of a paper given in 'Outside/In:
architecture, psychoanalysis, and spaces in-between' at the Freud
Museum,London, in June 2006, during 'Architecture Week' (Arts Council
of England), the text ostensibly pursues the references to domestic
architecture in the dreams of Sigmund Freud as a narrative, while the
subtext expresses anxiety, loss, and the revisiting of a subjective
past - oh, and the forgetting of a lovely pair of shoes, as the
author and Freud miss a collision on the stairs of 19 Bergasse,
Vienna.
The text is punctuated by a series of black and white photographs, taken on the stairs of the same apartment block, as the author searched for her title, her shoes, and her subject.
Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here
Sarah Jacobs
Deciphering Human Chromosome 16 bookworks use text in a visual way to document the ethical, economic, political and philosophical polemics associated with mapping the human genome.
We Report Here is an ebook which contains links to over 250 websites collected in the months following publication in the journal Nature of “The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16”( Vol. 432. December 2004). Its contents change over time as the websites change, migrate or disappear.
552 pp
£19.50 including postage and packaging
The Index to the Report sets fragments collected from the websites against the background of the earlier draft sequence originally published by Project Gutenberg. The solid physicality of the Index contrasts with the ever changing Report although vagaries of the printing process ensure that each copy of the Index is unique.
Re-writing Freud (2005)
752 pages
£12.50 including postage & packing.
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.
Sentences on Simon Morris
(2005) double sided, size: B1
Poster £15.00 inc. postage & packing
Detail from the poster which was first exhibited at EAST International 05. image 233,704 words travelling at 90mph on one side, sentences on Simon Morris on the other side.
The Royal Road to the Unconscious (2003)
£17.50 including
postage & packaging
Binding:
spiralbound
Dimensions: 240mm x 165mm
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.
This small pocket-sized volume contains some very big ideas. ‘Ask questions, I have really no answers, and I am completely lost I can say, I’m more and more lost, really, I’m lost in my life, I’m lost in my work, I’m lost everywhere but the only thing we can do is to question, ask questions, but there are no answers.’ - Christian Boltanski. This eco-sensitive model acknowledges that there is already enough material in the world and by working with extant material – by selecting and reframing – the artist is able to generate new meaning and, in doing so, disrupt the existing order of things.
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.
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