Plastic Words
13 December 2014 to 30 January 2015


Exhibition views

Luminous Books

Pop-up bookshop

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Philippe Thomas

Daniel Bosser, Philippe Thomas décline son identité, une pièce à conviction en 1 acte et 3 tableaux [Philippe Thomas Declines His Identity, an Exhibit in 1 Act and 3 Sets], 1987

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris, with kind permission of Claire Burrus, Paris, and Jan Mot, Brussels

 

Philippe Thomas

Daniel Bosser, Philippe Thomas décline son identité, une pièce à conviction en 1 acte et 3 tableaux [Philippe Thomas Declines His Identity, an Exhibit in 1 Act and 3 Sets], 1987

Two copies of book published by Galerie Claire Burrus and Yellow Now

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Nick Thurston

Performance for the event 

Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Eleanor Antin 

Domestic Peace, 1971–2

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. and the artist

Plastic Words: Publishing Models and Technologies of Publication

Raven Row, 15 January 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Eleanor Antin 

Library Science, 1971

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. and the artist

 

 

Isidore Isou 

Les erreurs de Marx, Lénine, Mao aboutissent à la formation de nouveaux Romanoff et de nouveaux Raspoutine dans les pays et les partis communistes [The Errors of Marx, Lenin, Mao Result in the Formation of New Romanovs and Rasputins in Communist Countries and Parties], chapter 1, 1979

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Isidore Isou 

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith 

Isidore Isou

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Isidore Isou

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith 

Isidore Isou

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith 

Paul Abbott and Cara Tolmie

Performance for the event

Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014 

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Paul Abbott and Cara Tolmie

Performance for the event 

Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014 

Photograph by Eva Herzog

 

Paul Abbott and Cara Tolmie

Performance for the event 

Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014 

Photograph by Eva Herzog

 

Mark Titchner with Daniel O’Sullivan and Alexander Tucker

Performance for the event 

Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014 

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Plastic Words: Publishing Models and Technologies of Publication

Panel discussion with Chris Kraus, Helen DeWitt and Jeremy Akerman 

Chaired by Antony Hudek

Raven Row, 15 January 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog

 

 

 

Plastic Words: Publishing Models and Technologies of Publication

Panel discussion with Chris Kraus, Helen DeWitt and Jeremy Akerman 

Chaired by Antony Hudek

Raven Row, 15 January 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog

 

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Background: Isidore Isou, Auto-portrait photographique spirituel [Spiritual Photographic Self-Portrait], 1968

Foreground: John Murphy, It is the Mirror Fig. 2, 2006

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams reading from their collaborative novel Diego Garcia for the event Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014

Photograph by Eva Herzog

'What is a publication?' Screening of talk by Matthew Stadler for the event 

Publication Studio - Live Publishing of Plastic Words

Raven Row, 6 February 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog

 

 

John Murphy

It is the Mirror Fig. 2, 2006 (left), and

The Hand of the Interior Fig. 18, 2006

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15 

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

John Murphy

The Hand of the Interior Fig. 18, 2006

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15  

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Gerry Bibby reading from his novel The Drumhead (2014; Sternberg Press for the event Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Hannah Silva

Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014 

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams reading from their collaborative novel Diego Garcia for the event Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Isidore Isou

Le combat contre les créateurs [The Struggle Against the Creators], 1973

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Isidore Isou

Works from the series Le combat contre les créateurs [The Struggle Against the Creators], 1973

Exhibition view, Marginalia

Raven Row, 2014-15

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Luke Skrebowski reading from a selection of his procedurally-generated text works for the event Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Nick Thurston 

Plastic Words: Verbalations

Raven Row, 13 December 2014 

Photograph by Eva Herzog

The Travelling Library of Helen DeWitt

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Plastic Words: Peter Adolphsen, Ten Small Stories, 1996-2000; animated imagery by David Musgrave, 28 January 2015. Photo courtesy David Musgrave. 

 

Publication Studio – Live Publishing of Plastic Words 

Raven Row, 6 February 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Publication Studio – Live Publishing of Plastic Words 

Raven Row, 6 February 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Publication Studio – Live Publishing of Plastic Words 

Raven Row, 6 February 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog

Publication Studio – Live Publishing of Plastic Words 

Raven Row, 6 February 2015

Photograph by Eva Herzog