TY - JOUR
T1 - The September Garden: Plots (2020 - 2021)
T2 - We are publication
AU - Allen, Jonathan
AU - Cattle, Rachel
AU - Collins, Jenna
AU - Eichelmann, Volker
AU - Hughes, John
AU - Newby, Christian
AU - Andrea Stokes,
N1 - Originating at Kingston School of Art’s Contemporary Art Research Centre in 2014, We Are Publication has gone on to become an independent artists’ group that tests innovative forms of contemporary art publishing. In flux and iterative, the group’s configuration as well as its outputs, signal divergent approaches to jointly conducted research. We Are Publication has produced speculative publications including a radio broadcast and vinyl record Diagram of an Hour (Resonance FM, London, 2016, Curved Pressing, 2017); a handmade rug Notes on a Carpet (Five Years, London, Focal Point Gallery’s Unit Twenty-One, Southend-on- Sea and the London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery 2017–2018); the exhibition We.Are.Cut.Up. (Pratt Institute, New York and Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow 2019); and t h e H O L D took place at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, an exhibition accompanied by a series of live events. Recent video work, Placement does not explain, but cultivates a September garden formed part of London’s Camden Arts Centre, Public Knowledge programme in September 2020.
Contributing Authors: Dr Jonathan Allen, Dr Rachel Cattle, Dr Jenna Collins (assembly) Volker Eichelmann, John Hughes, Christian Newby, Andrea Stokes.
PY - 2023/2/15
Y1 - 2023/2/15
N2 - Modes of collage have been a central preoccupation for the artists group We Are Publication (WAP). Participants have now set out to explore whether they can cultivate an artwork that is ‘grown’ from several discreet constituents. To this end WAP has drawn on contemporary American poet Rosemarie Waldrop’s recent appellation ‘gap gardening’ to suggest that the placement of words (and plants) generates intermedial zones of transformation and potential. Initially, visual and textual ‘seedlings’ were ‘planted’ in the form of a custom-produced newspaper sent to WAP’s participants. Repeated physical engagement with this newsprint composite prompted further approaches for generating September Garden’s nascent domain. The subsequent ‘plots’ (seen here as Season One) were then replanted, cut back, and otherwise tended to, germinating a series of textual assemblages (Season Two). Tracing and adapting Waldrop’s productive border zones, the collages and textual assemblages constitute WAP’s current findings in this experiment in jointly conducted research and speculative publishing.We Are Puibliction / contributing Authors: Dr Jonathan Allen, Dr Rachel Cattle, Dr Jenna Collins (assembly) Volker Eichelmann, John Hughes, Christian Newby, Andrea Stokes.
AB - Modes of collage have been a central preoccupation for the artists group We Are Publication (WAP). Participants have now set out to explore whether they can cultivate an artwork that is ‘grown’ from several discreet constituents. To this end WAP has drawn on contemporary American poet Rosemarie Waldrop’s recent appellation ‘gap gardening’ to suggest that the placement of words (and plants) generates intermedial zones of transformation and potential. Initially, visual and textual ‘seedlings’ were ‘planted’ in the form of a custom-produced newspaper sent to WAP’s participants. Repeated physical engagement with this newsprint composite prompted further approaches for generating September Garden’s nascent domain. The subsequent ‘plots’ (seen here as Season One) were then replanted, cut back, and otherwise tended to, germinating a series of textual assemblages (Season Two). Tracing and adapting Waldrop’s productive border zones, the collages and textual assemblages constitute WAP’s current findings in this experiment in jointly conducted research and speculative publishing.We Are Puibliction / contributing Authors: Dr Jonathan Allen, Dr Rachel Cattle, Dr Jenna Collins (assembly) Volker Eichelmann, John Hughes, Christian Newby, Andrea Stokes.
KW - Practice based
KW - contemporary art research
KW - Collaborative reserch
KW - divergent forms of knowledge
KW - Collage
KW - Rosemary Waldrop
UR - https://koko.zhdk.ch/
UR - https://koko.zhdk.ch/text-image-parergon/
M3 - Article
VL - 1
JO - KOKO - Journal for the Shared Campus
JF - KOKO - Journal for the Shared Campus
IS - 1
ER -