Published together for the first time, Stephen Watts’ Drawn Poems features over 250 works made across six notebooks, over 13 years from 1990–2003 in the Italian mountains, San Sebastián and Ljubljana. Faithfully reproduced at 1:1 scale, great care has been taken to retain the poems’ tonal quality and fine detail, inviting an intimate reading experience, inside one of Stephen’s notebooks.
An experiment in listening to frequencies beyond human sensorial range, Silent Whale Letters is a long-distance correspondence intimately attuned to the infravoice of a blue whale, a document held silent in the sound archive, and other so-called ‘silent’ subjects.
As part of an ongoing collaboration between Ella Finer and Vibeke Mascini the letters consider how the silent document shifts the logic of the archive, figuring listening as a practice of preservation.
As the letters attune to the ocean loud with communications across time and space, the authors write about the movement of matter, of energies, wavelengths, currents and how the ocean preserves as it disperses what it carries. How does working with what we cannot see, or even hear within range, shift the parameters of attention? How does the energetic archival space of the ocean agitate and disrupt claims to knowledge, history, and power?
Co-published with Sternberg Press and TBA21-Academy.
Future Cities gathers poetic responses to four works of visual art exploring romanticised landscapes, utopian ‘home climates’, found objects, intimacy, desire and community.
First presented at the National Poetry Library, Future Cities features artworks by Graham Gussin, Janice Kerbel, Alek O. and Prem Sahib, and new writing by poets Selina Nwulu, Astra Papachristodoulou, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo & James Wilkes.
