Intertitles

An anthology at the intersection of writing & visual art

Jess Chandler, Aimee Selby, Hana Noorali & Lynton Talbot

• Publisher: Prototype Publishing
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781913513146
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Intertitles is an anthology of work situated at the intersection of writing and the visual arts. The anthology aims to explore their confluence and is conceived in response to a twofold observation: the increased presence of written, spoken and performed language in the work of visual artists and the simultaneous increase in visibility and circulation of the work and voices of writers in the visual arts arena.

Bringing together a substantial and significant collection of work, the anthology recognises that both writers and artists are attracted to the possibilities of language as a material. Through essays, performance texts, scores, poetry and more, Intertitles plots a course through contemporary writing practices and lends perspective to the question of why this might be of particular interest at this moment in time.

In art as in poetry, meaning is made in the very conditions of the encounter itself. The knowledge produced is not instructive or strictly informational but subjective and relational. Artists build the worlds that viewers may inhabit temporarily in the moment of their becoming. The physicality of these temporary utopias, however, is frequently realised in the contested spaces of our museums and galleries. This anthology asks if poetry, and the world it is capable of building outside of these normative structures, is poised to be the most constitutive form of all. Putting poetry into the social milieu, as a shared goal of artists and writers, might be understood as a gesture towards a truly radical reimagining.

Table of contents

• COVER
• CONTENTS
• EDITORS’ PREFACE
• FOREWORD
• FATEMA ABDOOLCARIM: SHH
• VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY: STILL-FACE
• BEBE ASHLEY: LET’S SIGN SCIENCE / WRITING AUDIO DESCRIPTION AT THE ULSTER MUSEUM / DINNER PARTY
• ANNA BARHAM: UNDONE IN THE FACE
• PAUL BECKER: I NOTICED THAT DELPHINE SEYRIG WAS ONE OF THE ACTORS IN THE FILM PULL MY DAISY (DIRECTOR ROBERT FRANK, 1959)
• ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR: IN THIS REGARD, EXCERPT OF HOW TO ENSURE A PROPER FIT TO THE WEAPONS, PARTICULARLY THE MARCHING BOOT IN THE YEAR 2013: / EQUAL TO THE CHORDS, IN THE WIND (STRING THEORY) / WAVE FORM WALKS THE EARTH / THE DESTROYING ANGEL
• ADAM CHRISTENSEN: ADINA BLOWTORCH / WHAT IF?
• SOPHIE COLLINS: ABOUT THE BODY AND LIKENESS / THANK YOU FOR YOUR HONESTY
• CACONRAD: CORONA DAZE
• RORY COOK: SIX POEMS
• JESSE DARLING: THE LETTER
• ANAÏS DUPLAN: BLACKSPACE
• INUA ELLAMS: FUCK / TUPAC
• OLAMIJU FAJEMISIN: SPRING
• JOHANNA HEDVA: SOFT BLUES
• CASPAR HEINEMANN: SECOND SUN SYNDROME
• SOPHIE JUNG: FRAU WELT
• SHARON KIVLAND: MADEMOISELLELA MARCHANDISE
• TAREK LAKHRISSI: ABOUT BEING SCARED
• QUINN LATIMER: IMAGES TK OR ‘AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MOVE FORWARD’ / ‘Q’ DI QUADRO OR MY BODY, HER REFRAIN (IT COMES BACK)
• GHISLAINE LEUNG: TRACKLIST /COMPLICITY, FETISH, AGENCY
• JORDAN LORD: VALUE SUBTRACTED: A POETICS OF ACCESS AND INTERFERENCE
• DASHA LOYKO: ADAPTATION
• CHARLOTTE PRODGER: BEAMERS
• FLO RAY: AR TICULATIONS
• P. STAFF: EAT CLEAN ASS ONLY / ON VENUS
• ALICE THEOBALD: POINT OF VIEW / IT’S TOO HEAVY ALONE
• JESPER LIST THOMSEN: BLACKBIRDS
• AFTERWORD
• IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS
• BIOGRAPHIES
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• NOTE ON TITLE CARDS
• ABOUT PROTOTYPE
• THIS VOICE
• BACK COVER