Shipping container painted the colours of Obangsaek, containing all of the artist’s personal possessions from her New York apartment. Installation view at Cathédrale Saint-Pierre.
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Daniel Buren (2025) 8.7cm stripes
Containing an Introduction by Gill Partington and Adam Smyth
The Bard Bounded: Containing Miniature Shakespearean Books by Felicity Brown
Empty Boxes by Felipe Cussen
Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries as Containers of Life by Julie Park
Points, Pincers and Paper Play: The Containing and Uncontaining Work of Chatterboxes by Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires
Encountering Daniel Buren by Simon Morris
The Fragmented Library of the Sounding Box by Jean-Philippe Échard, Marie Radepont, and Étienne Anheim
From Habitat to Service Equipment: The British Government Book as Container in ‘the Tropics’ by Lucy Razzall, Lora Angelova, and Elizabeth Haines
Les Alyscamps by Joanna Kavenna, with artwork by Robert Williams
Containing Dickens, Indexing Drood by The 39 Step Press (Dennis Duncan, Gill Partington, and Adam Smyth)
The Minimal Element of Writing by Christian Bök
Daniel Buren (2025) 8.7cm stripes
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Artist in Residence: Claude Closky RUN WITH YOU
Lyrics, vocals and drum machine by Claude Closky.Chorus vocals on tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12 by Christian Bök; on tracks 2, 3, 8, 10, 11 by Claudia Cattell.Sound recordings and mastering by Michael Ward in November 2024.Published by Information as Material in partnership with Leeds Beckett University.Special thanks to Simon Morris, Elsa…
Read MoreCall for Submissions: Issue 6: Cuts / tears
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 http://www.informationasmaterial.org in partnership with Leeds Beckett University. It’s been described by the Times Literary Supplement as ‘a shot in the arm for academic publishing’ – ‘each…
Read MoreCall for Submissions: Issue 5: Containers
Call for Submissions Phyllis Johnson, editor or the 1960s New York magazine-in-a-box Aspen, used the term magazine to hark back to the original meaning of the word as “a storehouse, a cache, a ship laden with stores”‘ from the Arabic makzin, makzan, ‘storehouse’. But what are the implications of framing the book as a container…
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