Il pleut by Guillaume Apollinaire. Natalie Czech. Motto Books.
Posted in poetry, writing on April 12th, 2014Tags: Guillaume Apollinaire, Jacques Roubaud, Natalie Czech, Vanessa Desclaux
Il pleut by Guillaume Apollinaire. Natalie Czech. Motto Books.
For the series “Il pleut by Guillaume Apollinaire” Natalie Czech invited eight writers – Vanessa Desclaux, Mara Genschel, April Elizabeth Lamm, Ashkan Sepahvand, Oliver Tepel, Jacques Roubaud, Amilcar Packer, and Vincenzo Latronico – to each write a text that contains the same calligram by the French poet, Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918). Each text is written in the mother tongue of each author (French, German, English, Portugese, Italian). The texts were precisely composed around the calligram, so as to embed it in their very fabric, and thus dissolve its iconicity. Natalie Czech presents these texts as photographs of book pages and re-presents the calligram by marking its component words in the photographs with acrylic paint.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition L’image dans le tapis aux Atelier des Arques, Les Arques, France.
ISBN: 978-2-940524-20-4
Price: €8.00
Language To Cover A Page Edition. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.
Posted in Editions, literature, poetry, typography on March 10th, 2014Tags: Kristen Mueller
Language To Cover A Page Edition. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.
Text extracted from the final spread of the book Language to Cover a Page.
Edition of 25 each, numbered.
42 x 59.4 cm (A2)
€85.00
Partially Removing the Remove of Literature. Kristen Mueller. & So.
Posted in poetry, writing on February 24th, 2014Tags: conceptual writing, Kristen Mueller, Maurice Blanchot, Nick Thurston
Partially Removing the Remove of Literature. Kristen Mueller. & So.
“A book, even a fragmentary one, has a center which attracts it. This center is not fixed, but is displaced by the pressure of the book and circumstances of its composition. Yet it is also a fixed center which, if it is genuine, displaces itself, while remaining the same and becoming always more central, more hidden, more uncertain and more imperious. He who writes the book writes it out of desire for this center and out of ignorance. The feeling of having touched it can very well be only the illusion of having reached it.” -Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
In Reading the Remove of Literature (Information as Material, 2006), Nick Thurston has erased the text of the English translation of Maurice Blanchot’s L’espace littéraire (The Space of Literature), while at the same time preserving his own marginalia, resetting them in almost the exact typeface of Blanchot’s text.
In Partially Removing the Remove of Literature, Thurston’s marginalia have been partially erased. Only the non-verbal, diagrammatic traces – the underlinings and arrows, circles and asterisks – remain, printed one atop another, collapsing each chapter into the space of a single page. The chapters’ running titles, reprinted at the top of each page, offer the sole clue as to what Blanchot once wrote, and Thurston once read and annotated.
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Edit #63. Jörn Dege, Mathias Zeiske (Eds.). Edit Literaturzeitschrift.
Posted in magazines, poetry, writing on February 11th, 2014Tags: Christian Bök, conceptual writing, Kenneth Goldsmith, konzeptuelles Schreiben, Robert Fitterman, Vanessa Place
Edit #63. Jörn Dege, Mathias Zeiske (Eds.). Edit Literaturzeitschrift.
Edit Papier für neue Texte: Winter 2013/14
Editorial
Janko Marklein – Wir machen das
Andre Rudolph – erythema migrans
Kathrin Röggla – Der Lärmkrieg (Auszug)
Pascal Richmann – A Boy named Roy
Edit Essaypreis 2013
Noemi Schneider – Oh Boy, ich hasse Rot!
Sebastian Koth – Du berührst die Erde, dass sie deine Zeugin werde.
Lina Morawetz – Motten
Dossier Konzeptuelles Schreiben
Kenneth Goldsmith – Paragraphen zum Konzeptuellen Schreiben
Christian Bök – Eunoia
Robert Fitterman – Metropolis
Vanessa Place – Was ist Konzeptualismus?
Ara Shirinyan – Your Country is Great
Elisabeth Clark – Between Words
Swantje Lichtenstein – Vom Lesen, Schreiben und den Konzepten
Anne Waak – Wie ich einmal Ferien mit Claude Lanzmann machte
Danilo Scholz – Gläserne Jugend, gläserne Kämpfe:
Edward Snowden als militanter Bürokrat
Katharina Stooß – Kein einfacher Mensch
Bildteil: Edgar Leciejewski
Price: €5.00
Language to Cover a Page. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.
Posted in literature, poetry, typography, writing on January 15th, 2014Tags: & So, Kristen Mueller, Motto Books
Language to Cover a Page. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.
Working within a lineage which encompasses Joseph Kosuth’s Purloined (in which the author assembled a single novel from individual pages of different books), Tom Phillips’s A Humument (in which the author creates a new narrative by drawing on top of existing pages) and Ronald Johnson’s Radi Os (in which the author erases words from Milton’s Paradise Lost to create a stirring new poem), Mueller has done more than simply “compose the holes.” With Language to Cover a Page, Mueller has carefully aligned excerpts from disparate books—with differing typefaces intact—into two evolving pages. These pages crescendo before our very eyes, a flipbook of accumulating meaning, where with the passing of every page the narrative becomes aware of its own developing presence. —Derek Beaulieu (excerpt from text insert accompanying the book)
Language: English
Pages: 316
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-2-940524-09-9
Price: €22.00
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What we have done. Jason Dodge
Posted in poetry on December 22nd, 2013Tags: Henri Art Gallery, Jason Dodge, Luis Croquer, Matthew Dickmann, Sylvia Wolf
What we have done. Jason Dodge
Set of two books, titled “What we have done.” and “What have we done.”, respectively.
With texts by Jason Dodge, Matthew Dickman, Luis Croquer, Sylvia Wolf.
Published on the occasion on the exhibition “Jason Dodge: What we have done.” at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, on view October 19, 2013 – January 26, 2014.
Produced by Fivehundred Places
16.8 x 23 cm
978-0-935558-53-1
25€
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The White Review No. 9.
Posted in Journals, literature, poetry, writing on December 21st, 2013The White Review No. 9.
Contents:
Ordinary Voids by Patrick Langley (Essay)
Vladimir Sorokin (Interview)
Chess Review Storyboard by Marcel Dzama (Art)
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author James Murphy’s Notes on Nicola Morelli Berengo by Francesco Pacifico (tr. Livia Franchini) (Fiction)
Poems by Adam Fitzgerald, George Szirtes, Matthew Gregory (Poetry)
Dr Gaz by Jeff Keen (Art)
Even Pricks by Ed Atkins (Fiction)
Gustav Metzger (Interview)
Leaving Theories Behind by Enrique Vila-Matas (tr. Rahul Bery)
Poems by Gerður Kristný (tr. Victoria Cribb and Sigurður A. Magnússon) (Poetry)
Utopia Welcomes You!! by Mark Mulroney (Art)
The Drained Pool by Hunter Braithwaite (Essay)
Rebecca Solnit (Interview)
Eat My Heart Out (Fiction)
Cover art: The Secret Map by Raphaël Garnier
Editors: Benjamin Eastham, Jacques Testard
Language: English
Pages: 176
Size: 17 x 24
Binding: Softcover
16.99 €
Fivehundred places. Jason Dodge (ed.).
Posted in poetry, writing on November 23rd, 2013Tags: Fivehundred places, Jason Dodge
Fivehundred places. Jason Dodge (ed.).
New books by: Anna McDonald, Caroline Knox, Carl Phillips, Mary Ruefle, Matthew Zapruder, Heather Christle, Valzhyna Mort.
Fivehundred places is a press established by Jason Dodge in an attempt to bring new readers to some of the poets that have been so important to his thinking and working over the past decades.
With a single printing of 500 copies, each book will find itself in one of 500 places.
Each Fivehundred places book also features a Dead Scissor by Paul Elliman on its cover.
Price: €8.00
Cine Qua Non #7. Ana Luísa Valdeira (Director). University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies.
Posted in Film, photography, poetry, theatre, writing on November 12th, 2013Tags: occupy movement, portugese
Cine Qua Non #7. Ana Luísa Valdeira da Silva (Director). University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies.
Contents:
Occupy your museum
Crisis theatre enjoys a boom
of golden hills, off the golden hill
The Elephant Man (1980) by David Lynch: from ‘freak’ and clinical case to allegory
Between Light and Shadow – Iberian Intermittences
Liquid Landscapes or Not
Poetry is the Net Result of a Perfect Economy of Words
Black Mirror and the singers of Grandola
Portugese / English
128 pages + two inserts
Price: €8.00