Novel
Issue Two
Edited
~ Alun Rowlands &
Matt Williams
Designed
~ James Langdon
Newspaper Publication
pp. 64
ISBN 9781906424091
Donlon Books
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Mark Leckey Extract from The Long Tail (2009)
Barry MacGregor Johnston & Stephen G.Rhodes By and By (2009)
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Front
p.1 - 4
p.5 ,23,
28 & 29
p.6 - 9
p.10 - 11
p.12 - 17
p. 18 - 22
p.24 - 27
p.30 - 31
p.32 -33
p.34 - 39
p.40 & 58 p.41
p.42
p.43 -44
p. 45 -54
p.55 - 56
p.59 - 63
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Oscar Tuazon Last Try (2009)
Karolin Meunier
The Act of Corresponding (2009)
Cyprien Gaillard Untitled (2009)
Mark Leckey
The Long Tail (2009)
Barry MacGregor Johnston & Stephen G.Rhodes
By and By (2009)
Emily Wardill Split the screen in two (2009)
Paul Chan
Oh Stexts (2009)
Anna Barham
Return to Leptis Magna (2009)
Melanie Gilligan Crisis in the credit system (2009)
Nathan Hylden
Material Photography (Mel Bochner 1966-1997) (2009)
Karl Holmqvist
Declare Independence (2009)
Nichloas Byrne
Barber; Hosier (2010)
Ryan Gander
In search of the perfect palindrome (third attempt); crossword featuring a newly invented word 'Mitim' - rendering it unsolveable - placed in a national newspaper (2006)
Simon Denny
Deep Sea Vaudeo (2009)
Michaela Eichwald
Zeit ist Angstgnade (2009)
Oscar Tuazon
Last Try (2009)
Henri Chopin
Masque & Bergamasque (P.Verlain) de profil. (1988); Pologue libre (1982)
Ed Atkins
The Radical Dilettante (2008)
The randomly ripped out page(s) in this issue of Novel is Christoph Buchel's contribution to this publication. |
Publication launch, exhibition and screenings
Birminham Launch:
International Project Space
Birimingham Institute of Art & Design
Film Screenings:
JAN PETER HAMMER
Shady Characters (2007)
OWEN LAND
Undesirables (work in progress) (1999)
STAN VANDERBEEK
Poemfield 3 (1967)
CERITH WYN EVANS
Degrees of Blindess (1988)
Performance:
Edwin Burdiss & Johnny Woo
London Launch:
Limoncello
15a Cremer Street, London E2
Film Screenings:
JAN PETER HAMMER
Shady Characters (2007)
LEWIS KLAHR
Engram Sepals (2000)
STAN VANDERBEEK
Poemfiled 3 (1967)
CERITH WYN EVANS
Degrees of Blindess (1988)
Performance:
Edwin Burdiss & Johnny Woo
Launch Images London & Birmingham here ...
Image:Cyprien Gaillard Untitled (2009)
We would like to thank all of the artists for participating and the following galleries for their kind support; INTERNATIONAL PROJECT SPACE, BIRMINGHAM, LIMONCELLO, LONDON; DEPENDANCE, BRUSSELS; BALICE HERTLING PARIS; LAURA BARTLETT GALLERY; DANIEL BUCHHOLZ AND CHRISTOPHER MULLER AT DANIEL BUCHHOLZ GALLERY, BERLIN-KOLN; CABINET GALLERY, LONDON; JONATHAN VINER, FORTESCU AVENUE, LONDON; JAY SANDERS, GREENE NAFTALI, NEW YORK; HAUSER & WIRTH GALLERY, LONDON; LISSON GALLERY, LONDON; OFFICE BAROQUE, ANTWERP; OVERDUIN & KITE, LOS ANGELES; STANDARD (OSLO); SUPPORTICO LOPEZ, BERLIN-NAPLES; RICHARD TELLES GALLERY, LOS ANGELES AND VILMA GOLD, LONDON
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'Oh Stexts' (2009) by Paul Chan read by Edwin Burdis (aka Laliq) 2010; Image - Nathan Hylden Material Photography (Mel Bochner 1966-1997) (2009)
Novel draws together artists writing, texts and poetry that oscillate between modes of fiction and criticism. A cacophony of voices, that is the primary condition of writing, seek to break the habitual methods of representation and productions of subjectivity. Disconnected from any unitary theme these texts coalesce around writing as a core material of a number of artists exploring language and fiction. This fiction acts as a speculative force, no longer defined by what is said, even less by what makes it a signifying thing, but perhaps as a mode that exists parallel to the visual. Here, art writing is an apparatus for knowledge capture, informed by theory, film, politics and storytelling; writing as parallel practice, different, tangential; writing as political fiction; writing as another adventure on the ‘skin drive', renegotiating unfulfilled beginnings or incomplete projects – that might offer points of departure. Amidst the insinuated narratives and materialised visions there is a concern for writing and the impossibility of fiction which is at stake. Novel asks us to think of writing as something distinct from information, as at least one realm of cultural production that is exempt from the encompassing obligation to communicate.
Novel is distributed through events, readings and screenings which are staged at venues that become the loci for reading, furnished with artworks and related films that augment the fictioning of a scenario. This scenario will be the summation of multiple experiences and anxieties that demands new forms of critical fiction. These new strategies require an active protagonist, a polymath who can amalgamate them with fluency. Fiction is not made up, it is based on everything we can learn or use; a zone in which all sources of knowledge are valid.
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