Freud and the Gift of Flowers
Forbes Morlock & Sharon Kivland
Price £7.50+pp
ISBN 9781907468001
Year 2010
Edition 500
Pages 32
Binding soft; perfectbound
Illustration 12 BW illustrations
Dimensions 170 x 100 mm
Freud and the Gift of Flowers is a revised version of a seminar paper given by Forbes Morlock at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, in June 2007. There are gardenias, there are letters and postcards, there are presents, and there are lavish illustrations of the flowers Freud did not receive.
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Published on November 25, 2009 .
Filed under: CURRENT, PUBLICATIONS Tags: art, flowers, forbes morlock, gift, sharon kivland, Sigmund Freud
Historico-naturalis et Archaeologica ex Dale Street (The Natural History & Antiquities of Dale Street in the County of Lancashire)
Robert Williams & Jack Aylward-Williams
Co-published by Unipress, Cumbria; designed by Anna Danby.
Price £5.00+pp
ISBN 9781869979287
Year 2009
Edition 200
Pages 24
Binding softback
Illustration 23 colour illustrations
Dimensions 147 x 136 mm
Inspired by Gilbert White’s famous book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne of 1789, Robert Williams & Jack Aylward-Williams set out to explore, collect and present material from Dale Street in Lancaster throughout the year 2007-08. Documented and developed through photographs and text that reference collections drawn from the environment, the project is doubly presented through this book and a cabinet of curiosities. Both the book and cabinet were informed by the dialogues between father and son, and between the residents of Dale Street.
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Published on July 7, 2009 .
Filed under: CURRENT, PUBLICATIONS Tags: art, dale street, gilbert white, jack williams, lancaster, natural history and antiquities, robert williams
Visions – part 1 – information as material
Johan Deumens Gallery (Haarlem), April 11 – May 16 2008.
iam proudly accepted the invitation of Belgian gallerist and book dealer Johan Deumens to be the subject of the inaugural exhibition at his new gallery in Haarlem, in Spring 2008. The show was curated to present iam’s output in the context of other, object-based works that were also elements of the broader projects undertaken by each of our artist / authors – projects that iam is otherwise only able to represent via our publications and editions. Noises, writing machines, prints and source texts were all brought together to present the dynamic modes of appropriation that our artists engage in, and to suggest some of the lines of coherence to iam’s editorial trajectory.
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Published on April 1, 2008 .
Filed under: EVENTS Tags: art, artists' books, exhibition, gallery, Information as Material, Johan Deumens
Spinning Vol. II: De-Centering the Self
Simon Morris & Nick Thurston
Price £5
ISBN 9780955309274
Year 2008
Edition 400
Pages 24
Binding softback; stapled
Illustrations text only
Dimensions 115 x 175 mm
Extending the Spinning series of collaborations – whose beginning is marked by the iam publication Spinning Volume I – this new book presents itself as a script for a performance for two cyclists, in two acts, after Paul McCarthy, and about art education.
Act One, ‘Sense’, sets the two performers off on stationary exercise bicycles. Whilst constantly cycling as hard as possible the two performers alternately speak in an exchange of quotations about art and education. Cycling to fatigue whilst reading aloud, Act Two, ‘Nonsense’, removes the etiquette of speaking one after the other and instead the cyclists overlay one another’s speech, one quoatation at a time, following a loose rhythm set by whichever performer reads the longer quotation. This shifting enunciatory texture is represented typographically through the book, and is followed by a full set of end notes that reference all the cited sources.
Published on February 15, 2008 .
Filed under: PUBLICATIONS Tags: art, de-centering the self, education, exercise bikes, lecture, nick thurston, paul mccarthy, performance art, simon morris, spinning
The Royal Road to the Unconscious from Simon Morris on Vimeo.
The aleatory moment (223,704 words traveling at 90mph).
1st June 2003
(This short video documents the crux in the performance for the eponymous book, published by iam in 2003.)
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Published on July 2, 2004 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, PUBLICATIONS Tags: Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, appropriation, art, dallas sietz, daniel jackson, documentation, ed ruscha, film, maurizio cogliandro, Sigmund Freud, simon morris, the interpretation of dreams, the royal road test, the royal road to the unconscious
The Royal Road to the Unconscious
Simon Morris
Price £15.00+pp
ISBN 0953676595
Year 2003
Edition 750
Pages 80
Binding spiral
Illustration throughout, BW
Dimensions 240 x 160mm
The Royal Road to the Unconscious was conceived by the artist Simon Morris in order to conduct an experiment on Sigmund Freud’s writing. Utilising Ed Ruscha’s book Royal Road Test as a readymade set of instructions, seventy-eight students cut out every single word from Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. On Sunday, June 1st, 2003, the artist, Simon Morris (thrower) threw the words out of the window of a Renault Clio Sport on Redbridge Road, Crossways, Dorset, travelling at a speed of 90mph, approximately 122 miles southwest of Freud’s psychoanalytical couch in London. The action freed the words from the structural unity of Freud’s text as it subjected them to an ‘aleatory moment’ – a seemingly random act of utter madness.
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Published on September 21, 2003 .
Filed under: PUBLICATIONS Tags: Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, art, artists' book, ed ruscha, freud museum, Sigmund Freud, simon morris, telephone repeator station, the interpretation of dreams, the royal road test, the royal road to the unconscious
bibliomania 2000-2001
Simon Morris
Price £150+pp
ISBN 095367651-X
Year 2002
Edition 100
Pages 620
Binding softback; perfectbound
Illustration Colour and B & W images throughout.
Dimensions 295 x 210 mm
This is the second and largest codex form publication in the eponymous project, which was developed by Simon Morris from 1998-2002 through collaborations with a huge number of fellow architects, artists, curators, psychoanalysts, theorists and other bibliophiles. The broader project also included an earlier publication based on a smaller number of solicited book lists, similarly entitled bibliomania 1998-1999 (with Helen Sacoor, 1999), plus exhibitions (in Leeds, London, and New York) and an online database.
As artist / curator of the project, Morris invited the fifteen participants in the earlier bibliomania 1998-1999 edition to nominate further contributors. One hundred and fifty people took part in this expanded version of the project. Contributors were invited to send him a list of the books that reflected their own individual interests and practice. Their choices could range from the reverential to the ridiculous. bibliomania 2000-2001 contains all of the book lists returned in response, typeset as a 620-page directory that was ‘undesigned’ by Czech artist Pavel Büchler. Details »
Published on May 1, 2002 .
Filed under: PUBLICATIONS Tags: art, artists' book, bibliomania, book lists, Claude Closky, clive philpott, haim steinbach, henri chopin, simon morris, susan hiller, undesigned
bibliomania 1998-1999
Simon Morris & Helen Sacoor
Price £20+pp
ISBN 0953676501
Year 1999
Edition 1000
Pages 120
Binding softback; perfectbound
Illustration BW reproductions throughout
Dimensions 225 x 170 mm
This is the first codex form publication in the eponymous project, which was initiated by Simon Morris & Helen Sacoor in 1998 and continued until 2002 through collaborations with a huge number of fellow artists, curators, theorists, architects, and other bibliophiles. The broader project also included a second publication edited by Morris that hugely expands the concept and method explored in 1999, similarly entitled bibliomania 2001-2002 (published by information as material, 2002), plus exhibitions (in Leeds, London, and New York) and an online database.
As the artists/curators of this project, Morris & Sacoor invited 15 artists whose own work informed the context of this project. Contributors were invited to send them a list of the books that reflected their own individual interests and practice. Their choices could range from the reverential to the ridiculous. bibliomania 1998-1999 contains all of the book lists returned in response, some typeset and others reproduced as facsimile images of the written page, in a slim and powerful multi-threaded bibliography. Details »
Published on May 1, 1999 .
Filed under: PUBLICATIONS Tags: andrea fraser, art, artists' book, bibliomania, book lists, hans-ulrich obrist, helen sacoor, joseph kosuth, julie ault, simon morris, victor burgin, waterstones
