Un-Publish is a series of critical works published on paper, disseminated from Banner Repeater, a reading room dedicated to artists publications, and project space, on a working train station platform.
The project is driven by its location, dedicated to developing critical art in the natural interstice the platform and incidental footfall of over 4,000 passengers a day provides. This is achieved by rush-hour opening times that attract commuters, and an open door policy maintained 6 days a week.
The railways witnessed Britains transformation from agriculture to an industrial economy, as the increased efficiency demanded by the rapid developments in trade and labour during this period thoroughly homogenised time. Publishing, distribution, dissemination; the sharing of ideas, filter bubbles that then isolate us from each other again, the speeds of data we receive warping our time and attention, speak of our now, very everyday, post-industrial time.
'Un-publishing' (Julian Assange) accounts for the condition whereby online data is particularly susceptible to tampering, in that it is exceptionally easy to delete. No trace is evident of it ever having been there. You would have had to know it was there in the first place. Contrary to what we may suspect, traditional print media has a potentially longer shelf life, through the wide distribution of material: paper, that resists the censorious reach of corporations and authorities, (increasingly colluding), whether commercially or politically motivated.
Un-Publish works are determined by these ideas of shifting time and labour relations that come of the site, and focus on the co-evolution of humans and technology, that bear witness to epigenetics that may come of these new conditions of time.
Banner Repeater
The emphasis on multiple points of dissemination, via pamphlets and posters published from the site, and the other free material distributed, via the inter-connected transport networks that serve to distribute these works throughout the city and further afield, and the siting of the archive of artists’ publications as a public library; a resource to be utilised by both local community and visitors, in a working station environment, remain key.
www.un-publish.org
www.bannerrepeater.org
The project is driven by its location, dedicated to developing critical art in the natural interstice the platform and incidental footfall of over 4,000 passengers a day provides. This is achieved by rush-hour opening times that attract commuters, and an open door policy maintained 6 days a week.
The railways witnessed Britains transformation from agriculture to an industrial economy, as the increased efficiency demanded by the rapid developments in trade and labour during this period thoroughly homogenised time. Publishing, distribution, dissemination; the sharing of ideas, filter bubbles that then isolate us from each other again, the speeds of data we receive warping our time and attention, speak of our now, very everyday, post-industrial time.
'Un-publishing' (Julian Assange) accounts for the condition whereby online data is particularly susceptible to tampering, in that it is exceptionally easy to delete. No trace is evident of it ever having been there. You would have had to know it was there in the first place. Contrary to what we may suspect, traditional print media has a potentially longer shelf life, through the wide distribution of material: paper, that resists the censorious reach of corporations and authorities, (increasingly colluding), whether commercially or politically motivated.
Un-Publish works are determined by these ideas of shifting time and labour relations that come of the site, and focus on the co-evolution of humans and technology, that bear witness to epigenetics that may come of these new conditions of time.
Banner Repeater
The emphasis on multiple points of dissemination, via pamphlets and posters published from the site, and the other free material distributed, via the inter-connected transport networks that serve to distribute these works throughout the city and further afield, and the siting of the archive of artists’ publications as a public library; a resource to be utilised by both local community and visitors, in a working station environment, remain key.
www.un-publish.org
www.bannerrepeater.org