Affinities (The Siglio Blog)
Teaching Image-Text, Hybrid Forms, Visual/Graphic Narratives?
Teaching a course that traverses the uncategorizable, the innovative, the spaces in between? Siglio titles are expansive, compelling, thought-provoking works that will engage students in surprising ways as they discover what image and text can do.
In Poets & Writers: “Siglio rejects the assumption that one artistic practice must kneel to the other”
“Siglio is a ‘wunderkammer’ . . . a cabinet of curiosities that expands and transforms what is expected of visual-verbal literature.”
Joshua Beckman on Dick Higgins
Joshua Beckman at Poets House: “My hope is just to share some of the exuberance I have found over the years in the things Dick Higgins put into the world. As a maker of books, seeing his productions, each full of that excitement of encounter, believing in the book as a possible place for encounter.”
Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press Lives On…
The Something Else Press has a lasting influence on independent publishers now. Here’s a list of reprints, facsimiles and other adjacent publications.
New Works by Richard Kraft: “Ubu/Trump” and “All the Yellow and Red Cards Issued to Donald Trump…”
Artist Richard Kraft has two new works about Donald Trump: one at the Racial Imaginary Institute, the other here free to download.
Robert Seydel: “True aesthetic ambidexterity”
James Gibbons writes THE PARIS REVIEW DAILY: “One of the uncanny successes of Seydel’s art lies in the way his sophistication and erudition are everywhere in evidence . . . and yet he could fashion . . . a body of work that harnesses . . . the affecting strangeness and elemental power of naive art.”