Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument

Images from my visit to Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument. Show info here.
Images from my visit to Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument. Show info here.
My work for the distracted-workshop was included in the distracted-newspaper. The newspaper is a split/fountain collaboration with Xin Cheng, Jack Hadley, Layla Tweedie-Cullen, Jayme Yen; presenting actions by Chris Berthelsen, Nell May, Anne Fenton, Kristin Posehn. Published for the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2014 – OFF programme, 19 June – 26 October, 2014. Download here.
Believer: The Rules? I’m intrigued.
Padgett Powell: Rule 1 is The Gosling Rule. The story concerns the first thing the reader sees move. Rule 2 is that the problem, or the apparent and necessarily related problem, must appear soon, in the first paragraph if not the first sentence. Rule 3 is a complex function [wh = f(c1,c2,c3... + e + t)] involving withholding. Rule 4 is the bar test: everything must be said more or less as if you might say it to a stranger in a bar. Rule 5 is the doozie quotient. Rule 7 is the 3 Questions: Did it, could it, should it happen? Before any of these rules apply the writing must place itself unmurkily on the spectrum of credulity.
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A page from The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. First published in 1934, translated from the original Polish by David Magarschack.