Publications, editions and projects
Reisen I
Sharon Kivland
Price £2.00+pp
ISBN 9781907468018
Year 2010
Edition 150
Pages 16
Binding stapled
Illustration 2 BW illustrations
Dimensions 160 x 115 mm
Reisen I is the first is a series of occasional pamphlets, which refer to the trains, train journeys, railway-lines, stations, station platforms, railway timetables, and train compartments in the life and work of Sigmund Freud.
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.
Freud on Holiday Volume II: A Disturbance of Memory
Sharon Kivland
Introduction by Craig Saper; Greek transl. by Maria Skamaga
Co-published with Cubearteditions, Athens.
Price £16.50+pp
ISBN 9780955309236
Year 2008
Edition 1000
Pages 186
Binding soft; screenprinted dustjacket
Illustration 35 BW photographs; 15 BW illustrations
Dimensions 230 x 150 mm
A Disturbance of Memory is the second volume in Sharon Kivland’s trilogy, Freud On Holiday; a series of experimental travel writings in which she re-imagines journeys made (and sometimes dreamt) by Sigmund Freud to European sites of archaeological importance.
Once a year Freud would go on holiday with his brother, Alexander. Using Freud’s published works and archives, Kivland has diligently established the routes and itineraries of three such holidays, and pieced together all the other historical traces of Freud’s thoughts and reactions during and surrounding each of those holidays and the experiences they involved. Each book in her series documents Kivland’s experiences as she re-takes one of the same holidays, in the twenty-first century, with her sister. Through writings, photographs, drawings, postcards and other fragments Kivland assembles books that work between traditional genres to produce a new kind of para-scholarly performance. Volume II documents the sisters’ adventures as they follow Freud and his brother to Trieste and Athens, and are frequently diverted by the traces of others, including James Joyce, Jacques Derrida, Italo Svevo, and Ulysses.
An Agent of the Estate
Sharon Kivland
Price £7.50+pp
ISBN 9780955309281
Year 2008
Edition 500
Pages 32
Binding softback
Illustration 14 BW illustrations
Dimensions 2170 x 100 mm
In An Agent of the Estate Kivland invites her readers to follow her tour of properties entangled with the history of Sigmund Freud, taking detours through transport stations and board games.
L’esprit d’escalier
Sharon Kivland
Price £7.50+pp
ISBN 9780955309243
Year 2007
Edition 500
Pages 32
Binding softback
Illustration 14 BW illustrations
Dimensions 170 x 100 mm
L’espirit d’escalier is a revised version of a seminar paper delivered for ‘Outside/In: architecture, psychoanalysis, and spaces in-between’ at the Freud Museum, London, in June 2006, during the Arts Council of England’s ‘Architecture Week’.
Freud on Holiday Volume I: Freud Dreams of Rome
Sharon Kivland
Price £17.50+pp
ISBN 9780955309205
Year 2006
Edition 500
Pages 32
Binding soft; sewn
Illustration 11 BW photographs; tipped-in
Dimensions 230 x 145 mm
Freud Dreams of Rome is the first volume in Sharon Kivland’s trilogy, Freud on Holiday; a series of experimental travel writings in which she re-imagines journeys made (and sometimes dreamt) by Sigmund Freud to European sites of archaeological importance.
Once a year Freud would go on holiday with his brother, Alexander. Using Freud’s published works and archives, Kivland has diligently established the routes and itineraries of three such holidays, and pieced together all the other historical traces of Freud’s thoughts and reactions during and surrounding each of those holidays and the experiences they involved. Each book in her series documents Kivland’s experiences as she re-takes one of the same holidays, in the twenty-first century, with her sister. Through writings, photographs, drawings, postcards and other fragments Kivland assembles books that work between traditional genres to produce a new kind of para-scholarly performance. Volume I contains an essay and a set of photographs – image plates that are introduced as ‘Freud’s holiday photographs’ and tipped-in the book after printing. Through these two dynamics, the book documents the sisters’ adventures as they follow Freud and his brother to Rome, a place Freud had dreamt about four times before visiting.
Re-Writing Freud
Simon Morris
Edited, with an Introduction, by Craig Dworkin
Translated by a Lingo algorithm, programmed by Christine Morris
Price £8.99+pp
ISBN o 9536765 8 7
Year 2005
Pages 752
Edition 1000
Binding softback / perfectbound
Illustration 1 Black & White illustration
Dimensions 198 x 127mm
For this book work, Re-Writing Freud the artist Simon Morris has re-written Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. A computer programme (designed by Christine Morris) randomly selects words, one at a time from Freud’s 222,704 word text and begins to reconstruct the entire book, word by word, making a new book with the same words, every time the programme is re-started. This book is one instantiation of that process, scrupulously typeset according to the dimensions, fonts, chapter divisions and paragraph lengths of the 1976 Penguin paperback edition of Freud’s work, and printed on equivalent paper stocks.
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.)
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.