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.
THE IDEOLOGY OF DAVID CAMERON’S CONSERVATIVE PARTY
Nick Thurston
Price £1 (including postage)
Format Postcard poem; one-colour print on 250gsm card
Year 2009
Edition unlimited
Dimensions 155 x 105 mm
“For this simple postcard poem Thurston has set one term within three equally-spaced pairs of inverted/floating commas. As an extension of the contemporary reduction of main-stream type standards in English, which conflates the straight quotation mark with the inverted/floating comma and confuses the American commitment to double quotes with the British flittering between single and double quotes, Thurston releases the spatial compression used by typographers to distinguish double quotation marks from two adjacent apostrophes and he refuses the false spacing used by typographers to separate a quotation mark from an adjacent apostrophe. Here, one term becomes pressured: is it a direct or indirect quotation?; is the term used ironically, cynically, doubtfully, or in a nontraditional or nonliteral sense?; is it claimed as a title or used as a nickname? Simultaneously, the tiering of three pairs presses the question ‘what usage or intention is set or sub-set within which?’. Details »
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.
He Wore, He Might Find, & He Moved
Nick Thurston
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Format triptych of two-colour screenprints made with archival and lightfast inks on Somerset White Velvet 300gsm paper
Year 2009
Edition hand-numbered
Dimensions 1000 x 650 mm
THE DIE IS CAST
Caroline Bergvall & Nick Thurston
Price £1.50+pp
ISBN 9780955309298
Year 2009
Pages 16
Edition 1000
Binding stapled; softback
Illustration text only
Dimensions 105 x 74 mm
With its simple and precise composition this pocketbook layers the tension between the technical history and the socio-metaphorical extension of the ‘cliché’.
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.
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.
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
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.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
derek beaulieu
Afterword by Marjorie Perloff
Price £9.95+pp
ISBN 9780955309250
Year 2007
Edition 250
Pages 110
Binding soft; perfectbound
Illustration BW illustrations throughout
Dimensions 215 x 140 mm
Edwin A. Abbot’s famed science fiction novella from 1884, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, is spatially and conceptually appropriated by beaulieu in his acclaimed book-as-poetic-diagram of the same name.
In prose form, Abbot described a two-dimensional universe inhabited by polygons, one of whom narrates the reader through an encounter with the inconceivable: a third dimension. In a hyper-exaggeration of the printed page as a representational form, beualieu extends Abbot’s premise by turning every page in the Princeton University Press edition (1991) into an alphabetical line drawing, and inverts the ‘encounter with the inconceivable’ for his three-dimensional readers by deleting all the text and posing a poem that makes no allusion beyond two-dimensions.
sucking on words
Director: Simon Morris
Critical commentary: Bruce Andrews, Barbara Cole, Robert Fitterman
Film, Lighting and Sound: Fiona Biggiero, Jarrod Fowler, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman.
Film editor: Christine Morris
Original musical score: Rob Lavers
Price £19.95+pp
Year 2007
Edition 500
Duration 59 mins
Box Case; colour offset printed sleeve and 12pp inlay; colour offset printed disc face
Format DVD
sucking on words is a documentary film that features interviews with, and extensive performances by, the American poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It also features critical commentary on his intense and ground-breaking conceptualist practice from three of North America’s leading voices on avant-garde poetics. Shot on location in New York in 2007, the lively conversations featured in sucking on words are an ideal introduction to Goldsmith’s witty and provocative works, which are already regarded as hallmarks of 21st-century literature. Details »
Historia Abscondita (An Index of Joy)
Nick Thurston
Price £5.98+pp
ISBN 9780955309267
Year 2007
Edition 300
Pages 24
Binding softback; loose leaf
Illustration text only
Dimensions 175 x 105 mm
Historia Abscondita selects its title, format and purpose from amongst Friedrich Nietzsche’s “most personal of all books”, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. (“la gaya scienza”). Without a word of his own, Thurston dances with Nietzsche to the song of his aphorisms, re-reading possibility into his classic challenges through a subtle conceptual appropriation.
The index of Walter Kaufmann’s canonical English translation provides a site and concealed syntax that Thurston opens anew. The past, present and future influences, on and of Nietzsche, become conceptually unbound. This book allows the new relations of alphabetised coincidence that emerge to remain joyously unstable.