DETAILS
Hand-made text. 4 texts, folded, stapled and sealed, A4 yellow paper, magenta card. 4 writers. Kathy Acker, Unica Zürn, Theresa of Avila, Hannah Weiner.
Commissioned by Katherine Meynell & Susan Johanknecht and their artist focused Gefn Press, for their Volumes of Vulnerability year 2000 release.
“23 artists’ books contained in a battered tin 28 x 18 x 12.5cm high”
500 copies.
Gefn Press, London, 2011
A tribute to four writers who, for all their cultural differences, share a trance-like understanding of the connections between text and physicality, between violence and verbal illumination, between the intimate and the public facets of sexual desire as also a desire for writing.
