Broadsheets
2005 -
This is an ongoing newspaper series printed in runs of 1000, usually in 8 page B/W standard size. The newspaper is largely a stream of text drawn from up to date (the paper is printed the night before the show) spam e mails to the artist, with the specific sales pitch of the message mostly removed, to leave only the language used to get past the filters of computer software - or perhaps human scepticism.
Other texts are buried, or parasited back, into the spam. Occasionally the transitions to this are jarring, occasionally the segue is hard to spot. The texts veer from broken absurdity to having a seemingly indexical, affective quality of a moment.
The images below are links to PDF files. Edition 1 of the paper featured contributions by Sam Lewitt and Ryan Holmberg. Edition five had contributions from Nick Crowe and Martin Vincent. Some of the text was later used within the book project Fair Use (notes from spam) within the section titled "The Wire".
From selection shown at Parker's Box, New York (May 2005); Whitney Museum ISP show, New York (May 2005); Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn (Sep 2005); Swiss Institute, New York (Sep 2005); Artfayre, Newcastle UK (Sep 2005); PrintROOM, Netherlands (Spring 06); LMCC workspace open studio (November 2005); Fools in Print, Matt's Gallery, London; Gasworks, London; TART, San Francisco; CCA, Glasgow (2008)