Issue 5

Issue 5: Containers

The theme of Inscription issue 5 is Containers. The issue features articles from scholars and theorists on various topics: miniature Shakespeare libraries; 18th-century printed diaries; fragments inside medieval musical instruments; file boxes as technologies of empire; a remixed Charles Dickens in-a-box, and empty vessels in conceptual art. There is also specially commissioned writing by Joanna Kavenna, a vinyl LP by Claude Closky, and art editions by Michalis Pichler, Jeremy Deller, Erica Baum, Kiff Bamford, Harold Offeh, Jérémie Bennequin, and Joel Swanson.

Limited edition of 500.

Available to order here.

The contents of Issue 5 can be read online here.