Sound & Language, Graphic text and houseplans. On cris cheek’s imprint. Produced following the audio installation tour of Richard Crow’s iconic house The Institution of Rot, London, 1995.
First expanded text project. Shadowed Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, notably her third section “Rooms”. She conceptualises space as the movement and behaviour of objects/beings in space, and through negative contiguities: through what they’re not, or what we think they’re not.
DETAILS
Special edition of 500
1996
Out of Print
Version redesigned for PDF, e-book series curated by Brian Kim Stefans for UBU editions. 2000
Designed by Marit Münzberg
2000
The product of a year-long collaboration between Bergvall and the designer Marit Muenzberg, /ubu's web version of Eclat ups the ante on what can be done with a poetry e-book. The print version of Eclat, a slender yellow-covered volume, first appeared from chris cheek's Sound & Language press in England in 1997; the text itself was the byproduct, or page interpretation, of a walk-through performance environment that Bergvall had developed the previous year. This Acrobat version is the first in ubu’s series to use color as a central component, thereby complicating the screen-to-print relationship and foregrounding the invisible DMZs of technological remediation, but it also investigates the very architectural borders of a computer text file, thus turning the once innocent "margin" into a malleable facet of its poetic grammar (and the page into a frame of a flip-book). This document, a sort of fetish object in itself despite its immateriality, makes of our screens and printers vessels of language.
