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| | | The Mechanical Word (Vol. 1 - 5)
Designed and produced by Karen Bleitz with texts by Richard Price
Aluminium and silkscreened polypropylene with silkscreened polypropylene slipcase. 24 x 24 x 3cm, 4pp, limited to 15 signed copies. Circle Press, London, 2005
The idea of constructing a form of 'mechanical' language began as an exploration of the idea that "language pervades thought - with different languages causing their speakers to construe reality in different ways." (Stephen Pinker, 1994)
The first half of each volume contains a poem which illustrates how the machine acts as a part of speech. In the second half, the 'machine' is put to use in the context of a more complex 'mechanical sentence'. By turning the crank, the reader activates the second poem and is forced to address the changes created on the page.
"I wanted to use machines to look at the dynamic relationships - people and power relationships - that grammatical rules quietly and sometimes noisily suggest."
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Volume 4 ~ Hold Up (to have)
Volume 5 ~ Long Gone (to go)
Volume 2 ~ Wrecking Ball (to be) |
| Richard Price
Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Scotland. He trained as a
journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh, before studying English at the
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The youngest of the Informationist
group of poets, he was a founder of the magazines associated with them,
Gairfish and Southfields. He also co-founded Vennel Press, the imprint
which brought many of the earlier Informationist collections to a wider
audience. Richard Price is currently Head of Modern British Collections
at the British Library, London.
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