Call for Submissions Deadline for completed articles: 1 May 2022 Inscription: the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History launched in 2020, edited by Simon Morris, Gill Partington and Adam Smyth, and published by the artist’s book imprint information as material in partnership with Leeds Beckett University. Inscription brings together the critical, historical, theoretical and creative, and features work by…
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Pinning and Punching: A Provisional History of Holes, Paper, and Books
On Curating Filing Holes
An Interview with Kendell Geers
Fiona Banner: Full Stop
The cover art for this issue was taken from Fiona Banner’s 2020 project, Full Stop, an intervention developed in collaboration with the environmental campaign group Greenpeace. The pandemic has made us more alert to the precariousness of nature, at a time when words like ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency’ have been repeated to the point of diluting their urgency, this work is a message…
Read MoreSignifying Nothing
A Snow Hill in the Air
Erica Baum: Piano Rolls
“Like crude precursors of computer punch tape, piano rolls speak a peculiar machinic language of holes. Their perforations were the operating code of the player piano, each one positioned to trigger a note of particular pitch and duration, producing music without the need for a musician. In Erica Baum’s photographs, with their holes rendered as…
Read MoreA Glossary of Holes
David Bellingham: Cigar Burn Apertures
Cigar Burn Apertures, David Bellingham, 2019 Dear David,Metzger is determined in his rejection of the commodification of art, a negation of the superficial objects of desire, the capitalist candy that fills the galleries and the dealers that push it: ‘You stinking fucking cigar smoking bastards and you scented fashionable cows who deal in works of…
Read MoreChristian Bök: Supermassive
Miranda July: Finger Tablet, Three Hole Tablet
Harold Offeh: Crystal Mouths: Fools Gold (Pyrite), Rose Quartz, White Crystal, Amethyst
Carolyn Thompson: The Beast in Me
The Perfect Cut: Talking with Myriam Dion
Wormholes, the Cascabel Butterfly and an AR Collaboration
Perspective Correction
Full Stop Intervention with Greenpeace
The Cut: Reading the Hole on the Last Address Memorial Plaques in Moscow
house/table
typographic particulars
Call for Submissions: Issue 2: Holes
Call for Submissions Deadline for completed articles: 1 May 2021 Often dismissed as a flaw or quirk, holes are a common feature of the material text with much to tell us. For book historians they can be a kind of evidence: the pinpricks made by medieval scribes to mark out their page; the stitching holes…
Read MoreWelcome to Inscription
Where to begin? How to begin? These are tricky questions. Perhaps it’s too late to ask, since we’re already out of the starting blocks. We’re on the second line, heading rapidly for the third
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