Intertitles: An Anthology at the Intersection of Writing and Visual Art
Various Artists
Prototype Publishing
English
Edited by Jess Chandler, Aimee Selby, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot.
Text by Isabel Waidner and Vahni Capildeo.
Softcover with French flaps and loose-leaf insert
400 pages
165 x 240mm
2021
ISBN 9781913513139
Intertitles is an anthology of work situated at the intersection of writing and the visual arts. The anthology aims to explore their confluence and is conceived in response to a twofold observation: the increased presence of written, spoken and performed language in the work of visual artists and the simultaneous increase in visibility and circulation of the work and voices of writers in the visual arts arena. Bringing together a substantial and significant collection of work, the anthology recognises that both writers and artists are attracted to the possibilities of language as a material. Through essays, performance texts, scores, poetry and more, Intertitles plots a course through contemporary writing practices and lends perspective to the question of why this might be of particular interest at this moment in time.
In art as in poetry, meaning is made in the very conditions of the encounter itself. The knowledge produced is not instructive or strictly informational but subjective and relational. Artists build the worlds that viewers may inhabit temporarily in the moment of their becoming. The physicality of these temporary utopias, however, is frequently realised in the contested spaces of our museums and galleries. This anthology asks if poetry, and the world it is capable of building outside of these normative structures, is poised to be the most constitutive form of all. Putting poetry into the social milieu, as a shared goal of artists and writers, might be understood as a gesture towards a truly radical reimagining.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/intertitles?_pos=1&_sid=6c2b20873&_ss=r)
About the Publisher
Founded in 2019 by Jess Chandler, Prototype is a publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies and interdisciplinary projects. With an emphasis on producing unique and beautiful books, we are committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
(source: https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/about/)
