an editorial
Email sent to contributors:
Dear –
Im currently guest-editing an issue of e-zine Ekleksographia (run by Jesse Glass at ahadada) and want to put together something from textworks that emphasise the touch — handwrit and haptic — Im particularly interested in pieces that consider emotional engagements, human space - that weird trace and corporate/military erasure therof — wondered if you might like to contribute...
the handmade, the human touch, the not-digital. These qualities link into the alternative tradition of poetics — and to 'outsider' artists who are owed a debt by the experimenters (an IOU all the way back to Will Blake, he and the Mrs sitting on the lawn in London afternoons, naked, drinking tea).
Im also interested in essay pieces thatre strenuously not-academic, slipping into areas thatre not discrete or sealed or dead — the difference in fact between this email and a handwritten letter.
I like the dubious irony of using a digital outsource for this project. There will be an essay linking Maggie O'Sullivan/Bob Cobbing thru th touch, a catalogue by Kirstie Gregory from Henry Moore Institue abt the contributions to the magazine — but the field is pretty much open — the deadline is end Sept — might you be interested?
I do hope so.
Best wishes
Philip
Ekleksographia
Contributors so far
Sean Bonney (handmade visual disturbance to poem sequences)
Sarah Sanders (24 hour live web performance of the act of writing)
Tony Trehy* (poet, text strips photo'd in situ at various galleries in Europe)
Tony Lopez* (poet, 5 notebook pages tracing the genesis of False Memory, photographed with windblown pages)
Geraldine Monk* (sequence of very sumptuous and joyous draft poems - this way of showing Geraldine's work entirely suits her)
Alan Halsey* (poet a-gathering of lipozard-related materials, myth-making – most are Alan's rough pages)
Liz Collini (txt artist - elegant self-reflexive chalk writing photographed in galleries, deserted bldgs, artist's studio)
Harald Stoffers* ('outsider' – tho I don't like that term - artist – draws his own lines to write along - letter to his mother that floats into abstract patterning)
George Widener* (ditto above, txt constructions)
D Marsh* (visual sonnet - as flash movie)
Ben Gwilliam* (sound score/drawing made by tracing all the words in poem 'about everything' onto one page - plus sound piece of the words erased, leaving only the sounds between)
Lee Patterson* (sound artist, score for hands and amplification - plus poss sound piece)*
Li Chen (live artist, text works and live performance in gallery, videoed, poss also an interactive piece)
Helmut Lemke and Kerry Morrison (love letters in drawing)
Rachel Elwell* (artist, drawn txt )
The Gingerbread Tree (rewrite of oldstyle educational book)
Laurence Lane (artist, text/sound work)
Todd Thorpe (writing bout the haptic, esp. Bob Cobbing, Maggie OSullivan)
Steve Waling (handwriting bout prisoners' handwriting)
Kirstie Gregory (catalogue bout contributors' works, written as though a tour in a gallery)
Carol Watts* (poet, working with found materials, incl. shopping receipts/vis poems and essay)
Sue Arrowsmith* (drawings of reminder msgs, shop windows)
Matt Dalby* (handmade abstract poems, v simple and minimal, reminds of michaux)
Robert Sheppard* (blues-based soundwork)
David Tibet* (artist/musician/poet - overwritten prayer texts)
Anna MacGowan (photos of txt bout grief)
Nicholas Blinko* (repetitive textworks)
David Griffiths (artist, film storyboards and handmade projectors, films)
* = material already received
Ekleksographia:
William Blake and the Naked Tea Party
March, 2010
Philip Davenport
Philip Davenport is applepie-editions.co.uk.