A public artist's talk exploring the literary, typographic and political implications of taking publishing seriously as a form of artistic work, convened by Magdalena Ziółkowska.
The prompt for the talk was idea that there has never been so much language produced, and never has so much of it been reproduced in public. In the talk I discussed how we think critically and imaginatively about the roles that art – with its peculiar contexts of production and reception – might play in the growing textualisation of everyday life. My premise was that our technical mediascape is so fluid and synthetic that long-standing practices of writing and reading need to be fundamentally re-thought, and that private and public spheres are now so confused that what we might call 'publishing' has changed dramatically.
