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Drunk? Adventures in Sixteenth Century Brewing
No full textThe project was a major interdisciplinary initiative, bringing together historians, archaeologists, scientists, and craftspeople, to recreate beer from sixteenth-century Ireland. The journey was captured by a team of academic film makers led by Patel. The resulting film captures the complexities of historical recreation while reflecting on the intersections of art, science, and history. It highlights how embodied and material engagement with the past can generate fresh historiographical insights and invite broader audiences to connect with history
Deadfall
No full textDeadfall is the second book from Max Ferguson, and his imprint Oval Press. It is a photographic novel that weaves together literature and photography, inviting the reader to slide in free-fall through the life, dreams and memories of its faulted protagonist. We follow him back to a small village in rural France, apparently devoid of life, where he struggles to write, smokes too much weed and comes to terms with his isolation and insomnia. What is he running from and why did he turn up in the small village in the middle of nowhere unannounced
Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms
No full textBrings together a range of research communities to contextualize and archive over a decade of work in new materialist theorising and knowledge-making practice
Consolidates new materialisms as a distinguished field of scholarship
Brings together the key proponents of the field in a multi-voiced conversation
Provides consonant, dissonant, and feminist genealogies of the state of the field
Focuses on the methodological nature of the materiality and meaning-making nexus
Combining a reflective genealogical approach along with productive avenues for future research, this volume is an essential collection for the field of new and feminist materialisms.The volume uses the new materialist movements in thought of changing, intersecting, practicing, and transforming. As methods, these movements have engendered the metaphysical questions that different new and feminist materialist practices engage. The volume follows these four movements as method-question-actions in four parts, each of which is preceded by an introductory framing-essay. Rosi Braidotti’s preface offers revelatory mappings to bring the book together and curated panels further offer co-authored texts which practice the collective nature of academic thinking advocated by the European feminist new materialisms network
A collaborative research manifesto! An early career response to uncertainties
Get PDFSocial researchers have been adapting methods and practices in response to COVID-19. In the wake of these adaptations, but still in the midst of intersecting crises that the pandemic has exacerbated or shifted (e.g. health-social-political-economic), researchers face a future suffused with methodological uncertainties. This paper presents a Collaborative Research Manifesto that responds to this by promoting markers for meaningful collaborations in future research. The manifesto was co-written primarily through a series of workshops and events that were designed to identify challenges within, and potential for, collaborative research. Through this exploratory collaborative qualitative process, we highlight what the future of such research could look like and describe methodological commitments that collaborative researchers should embody. The discussion draws on wider methodological literature to articulate the key role that ‘collaborative research’ can offer in uncertain times whilst being sensitive of the limitations of our assertive and radical programme
Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-1970
No full textThe first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies. This term has fallen out of usage; however, it was used to describe the pinnacle of the British ready-to-wear fashion industry between the 1930s and 1960s. Companies within this sector have typically been recognised as creators of high-quality copies of French haute couture, using ready-to-wear techniques.
Liz Tregenza traces wholesale couture garments from concept to usage, considering design, manufacture, branding, promotion, retail and export. She looks beyond the garments produced and investigates the people behind these firms, consequently demonstrating the significant role that largely Jewish immigrants played in the development and success of this industry. The book also considers the wider social and economic factors that affected manufacturers and consumers; the effect of austerity, rationing and the Utility scheme, and the pressing need for wholesale couturiers to export their products internationally. It demonstrates that 1946 was a critical year for re-building and re-imagining the London fashion industry and that wholesale couturiers were at the centre of these developments. Furthermore, it reveals the impact of changing consumer purchasing power, including the burgeoning youth market, for fashion manufacturers.
Offering a new perspective on British fashion history, Wholesale Couture demonstrates that wholesale couturiers were vital in cementing London's status as a ready-to-wear fashion centre
Climate Emergency Visual Action Plan
Get PDFAchieving carbon neutrality requires collective action involving businesses and residents and encouraging them to participate in local governance processes. The most immediate challenge to enable collaboration is to effectively communicate the multiple lines of actions and operational objectives. The Visual Action Plan gives a holistic overview helping public officers to collaborate internally and externally
BOOK DRAWINGS #1–12
No full textAn A4 booklet of drawings made from a single A4 sheet that is printed on both sides and then folded, stapled and trimmed by hand to create the book.
Published by Piece of Paper Press, BOOK DRAWINGS #1–12 by Andrea Mason is POPP.042.
Distributed in a numbered limited-edition of 150 copies.
My book was published simultaneously with POPP.041 by Sharon Kivland:
Piece of Paper Press is delighted to publish new titles by two leading artists and writers working at the interface between visual art and literature. THE INCORRUPTIBLE by Sharon Kivland (POPP.041) is published simultaneously with BOOK DRAWINGS #1–12 by Andrea Mason (POPP.042). Each is distributed in a numbered limited-edition of 150 copies.
These mostly left the building yesterday. The photo above is of two bundles of the finished books by the respective artists, which as usual were wrapped in offcuts of the printed sheets. Sharon Kivland’s THE INCORRUPTIBLE emulates the house style of French publishing house Gallimard. And that face! Don’t you just love that drawing of Beckett by Andrea Mason?
Kivland writes: THE INCORRUPTIBLE was written on a single day, one of mourning, on 10 Thermidor – it is the date, in Year II, on which Robespierre and twenty-one others were guillotined without trial in the Place de la Revolution, Paris. It is a short (and angry) account of unbearable loss, in which I speak for Éléonore Duplay, known as Cornélie, a daughter of the radical household in which Robespierre lodged. After his death, she was known as his widow, though the truth of their relationship is unknown.
Mason writes: These book drawings – presented here in the order in which I posted them on Instagram – are a near-alphabetical inventory of novels I choose to keep, within the process of which there is a sifting and sorting, as well as an intimate process of revelation. This shelf of books largely contains books bought long ago. More recent piles of books sit elsewhere. As I continue the drawings, I will need to choose whether to disrupt my system further, or whether to divert across to books housed elsewhere, non-alphabetically, which reflect a more up to date self-portrait.
ICYM, Piece of Paper Press was founded in 1994, designed as a low-tech, sustainable artists’ book project to commission and publish new writings, visual and graphic works by artists and writers. Each miniature copy is made from a single A4 sheet that is printed on both sides and then folded, stapled and trimmed by hand to create the book. There is no schedule; titles are published when they are ready.
It was a very happy accident that these two titles just happened to be ready to publish at the same time.
Piece of Paper Press titles are always distributed free, usually in a limited edition of 150. Fifty copies are distributed by the contributor, and around a hundred to the press’s slowly evolving mailing list, which is gradually displaced by past contributors. Remaining copies are added to the project’s archive. Some titles have been given away at special events, or as larger runs inserted in magazines.
A display of the entire project archive (then to date), ‘Piece of Paper Press: Artworks and Ephemera, 1994-2017’, took place at Site Gallery, Sheffield, in Strong Language curated by Tim Etchells for Off The Shelf Festival of Books, October 2018. See Chris Saunders’ photos of the six-vitrine display here…
Accessible collections holding Piece of Paper Press titles include Arnolfini archive, Bristol; Chelsea School of Art Library; Live Art Development Agency study room; and UCL Small Press Collections, London
Writing in/to Waste: Workshop with Andrea Mason
No full textI delivered a waste writing workshop as part of Vestibule at Lethaby Street Gallery, CSM, and as part of The Wastemakers on Cornucopia Street exhibition
Hayley Tompkins: Far
Get PDFReview of Hayley Tompkins' exhibition 'Far' at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh 22 October to 29 Januar