BROKEN VILLAS by Helen Marten
220 × 295mm, 20pp. + envelope + insert
Edition of 500, published by BFTK
ISBN 978-0-9956835-9-4
May 2024, London, St Leonards-on-Sea
BROKEN VILLAS (£12 + shipping)
Written in response to three physical photographs, ‘Broken Villas’ contains and considers how a vessel might clasp tightly to known volumetric identities, but also loom with a set of accentuated clues towards otherness: the excavated seams in the earth and what we fill those holes with, imaginary or otherwise; the glacial erraticism of the boulder; the queer crimping of a hotel pillowcase; the modes via which objects are housed as display, but also packaged away, with sorrow, with fear, with erotism etc. Published as a prelude to BFTK#7, ‘Broken Villas’ is collected and written by Helen Marten, one of the co-editors of the forthcoming issue.
TENDENTIOUS | NEO-SEMANTICS by Lily Greenham
with ‘dear lily…’ insert by Larry Wendt
210 × 270mm, 36pp. + insert
Edition of 350, published by BFTK
ISBN 978-0-9956835-8-7
April 2024, London, St Leonards-on-Sea, New Haven
TENDENTIOUS | NEO-SEMANTICS (£10 + shipping)
‘tendentious | neo-semantics’ is a collection of text-sound pieces by Lily Greenham transcribed and (re)typeset from a previously unpublished edition originally written in 1970. Reproduced and revocalised in dialogue with the Lily Greenham Archive at Goldsmiths, this new edition is bookended by excerpts of contextual writings by Greenham — ‘a few remarks’ (1970 / 71), ‘language and its uses: lingua tongue’ (1972) and a ‘post scriptum’ to the essay ‘lingual music’ (1977) — and also punctuated by ‘aphorisms’ and ‘50 words stories’ as structural beats between semantic poems. A tall format hole-punched insert contains a written remembrance by Larry Wendt and a photograph courtesy of Stephen Ruppenthal. Later in 2024 a vinyl record / catalogue co-published with the Badischer Kunstverein, featuring recordings of vocal performances by Anna Barham and Ute Wassermann, will follow.
WORKING THROUGH OBJECTS by Susan Hiller
with ‘Little Objects’ insert by Sharon Kivland
& ‘Postface’ by Paul Buck
210 × 280mm, 24pp. + inserts
Edition of 400, published by BFTK
ISBN 978-0-9956835-7-0/p>
March 2024, London, St Leonards-on-Sea, New Haven
WORKING THROUGH OBJECTS (£12 + shipping)
‘Working Through Objects’ is a republication and expansion of a text combining three talks by Susan Hiller at the Freud Museum in 1994 navigating the boundaries between art, anthropology and psychoanalysis in relation to her installation ‘At the Freud Museum’. Set aside audience comments and discussions that followed the talks and accompanied by images from the Book Works archive, it is further supplemented by a newly commissioned essay insert titled ‘Little Objects’ by Sharon Kivland and ‘Postface’ by Paul Buck.
BRICKS FROM THE KILN #6:
Edited by Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh‐Lister
170 × 224.764mm, 164pp. + bookmark inserts
Edition of 800, ISBN 978-0-9956835-6-3
March 2023, London, Brighton, St Leonards-on-Sea
BFTK#6 (£12 + shipping)
This instalment of Bricks from the Kiln doubles as issue #6 of the journal and as an exhibition catalogue
for the thematic show ‘BFTK#6: Tentative — Incomplete — Inconsistent: A Catalogue of the Disappeared,
Destroyed, Lost or Otherwise Inaccessible’. Presenting objects, artworks, artefacts, models, events and
animals that no-longer — or never did — exist in physical form, the exhibition explores themes of death,
destruction and reincarnation, examining persisting interests in notions of ephemerality and permanence,
memory and record, preservation and erasure, creation and reconstruction. How do we remember and
memorialise? How is space given to the unrecorded? How do we experience the out of reach, concealed,
unseen, undiscovered? How can the dematerialised be materialised again, through the mediation of
writing, image and sound?
THE ALMOST HORSE
Helen Marten
(inside front / back cover)
‘STILL IN ALL HEARTS, IN ALL BELLIES, IN ALL TOES’:
A BELATED REVIEW OF FESTIVAL DE FORT BOYARD
Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh-Lister
(pp.6–8)
EDDYSTONE
Rachael Allen
(pp.11–18)
TO MAKE THE STONE STONY
Emily LaBarge
(pp.21–26)
WHEREFORE AM I NOW?
Lucy Mercer
(pp.29–40)
WESTON:
THE TOWN THAT WAS, AND THEN WASN’T
Crystal Bennes
(pp.43–52)
NOTES TO ACCOMPANY VIOLENT INNOCENCE (2019)
Will Harris
(pp.55–64)
GHOST, POCKETS, TRACES, NECESSARY CLOUDS
Matthew Stuart
(pp.66–69)
CONNECTIVITY OF TOUCHING
Ali Na & Mindy Seu in conversation
(pp.71–76)
PEARL
Rose Higham-Stainton
(pp.79–84)
NOTES FROM NEW MEXICO
Jennifer Hodgson
(pp.87–98)
THE MOOG OF AHMEDABAD
Paul Purgas
(pp.101–108)
IN WHICH DECIBELLA ESCAPES AUDITION
Sarah Hayden
(pp.111–122) (listen here)
D.C.B.: A PARTIAL RETROSPECTIVE
Juliet Jacques
(pp.125–136)
PINBALL REMAINS:
ON THE PINBALL ISSUE OF THE SITUATIONIST TIMES
Ellef Prestsæter
(pp.139–150)
TOMB III – CADMIUM (2021)
Gilbert Again
(pp.152–154)
NON-DESCRIPT ANIMAL
David Hering
(pp.157–161)
Cover & Bookmark artwork by Helen Marten
IN THE BAG by Paul Buck
148 × 210mm, 28pp. + insert
Edition of 150, published by BFTK
ISBN 978-0-9956835-5-6
November 2022, London
IN THE BAG (£7.50 + shipping)
*SOLD OUT*
Published as a precursor to BFTK#6, ‘In the Bag’ by Paul Buck is a pamphlet / essay / missive
about
rarities, the out of print, one-offs and those ‘oddities, oddments and ornaments’ that
collectors
and magpies seek, hoard and lose. Printed and numbered in an edition of 150, each copy comes
with a
violet insert featuring a photograph of a Gladstone bag by Valentine Day.
ANYTHING BUT BEGIN
Louis Lüthi
(pp.5–18)
SNOW AND BLOOD: A DIPTYCH PICTURESQUE
Helen Marten
(pp.27–37)
THE RECIPE FOR BLUE WAS RED / SPATTERING,
SHADOW TEXTS,THE APPLICATION OF
INTERNAL CONTRADICTION
Rebecca May Johnson
(pp.38–45)
NETWORKS ARE NOT DIAGRAMS:
AETHERIC THEORIES AND SOCIAL PHYSICS
Johanna Drucker
(pp.46–59)
I LOSE MY HEAD
Daisy Lafarge
(pp.60–67)
THE BIG ROAR
Holly Pester
(pp.69–76)
OFF THE PAGE: LOUD COWS A TALK AND A POEM
ABOUT READING ALOUD
Ursula K. Le Guin
(pp.83–90)
SIGNS, SOUNDS, METALS, FIRES,
OR AN ECONOMY OF HER READER
Quinn Latimer
(pp.91–109)
SKETCHES FROM A POLITE HELL
Stefan Themerson
(pp.111–113)
TRANSLITERATIVE TEASE
Slavs and Tatars
(pp.115–133)
A SÉANCE: A CALL AND RESPONSE
Ashanti Harris
(pp.134–142)
XAXALPA
Catalina Barroso-Luque
(pp.149–162)
LEFT TO HIS OWN DEVICES:
RICHARD HAMILTON, INTROSPECTRE
Kevin Lotery
(pp.163–180)
AJAR AJAR A JAR: [OPENING THE CONCRETE]
Bronac Ferran w. Greg Thomas
(pp.163–180)
BARONESS ELSA’S EM DASHES
Astrid Seme w. Alex Balgiu
(pp.1–4, 19–26, 77–82, 143–148, 205–208)
BRICKS FROM THE KILN #4
Edited by Natalie Ferris, Bryony Quinn, Matthew Stuart
& Andrew Walsh‐Lister
Published as event / publication
170 × 224.764mm, 288pp. + insert
Edition of 1000, ISBN 978‐0‐9956835‐2‐5
December 2020, London, Chicago & Edinburgh
BFTK#4 (£14 + shipping)
GREENING
Helen Marten
(front / back flaps)
JOY & HAPPINESS, FIDELITY
& INTIMACY IN TRANSLATION
Sophie Collins
(pp.4–13)
PLANETARY TRANSLATION
Don Mee Choi
(pp.15–19)
TRANSLATION AND A LIPOGRAM:
OR, ON FORMS OF AGAIN-WRITING
AND NO- (OR NOT THAT-) WRITING
Kate Briggs
(pp.23–33)
UNHOMING (1 of 4):
FOLLOWING HÖLDERLIN’S ‘HEIMAT’
Phil Baber
(pp.35–47)
SNOW WHITE AND THE WHITE
OF THE HUMAN EYEBALLS
Joyce Dixon
(pp.51–62)
ALTAMIRALTAMIRALTAMIRA
Florian Roithmayr
(pp.65–116)
LEVEL UP, LEVEL DOWN
Jen Calleja
(pp.119–124)
TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE]:
A JAVASCRIPT FOR THREE VOICES
J.R. Carpenter
(pp.127–134)
THE MECHANISATION OF ART
Edgar Wind
(glosses / annotations / insertions by
Natalie Ferris & Bryony Quinn)
(pp.137–144)
UNHOMING (2 of 4)
Phil Baber
(p.147)
COMMISSION FOR A NOIR MOVIE
B IN THE BAY OF BISCAY
Rebecca Collins
(pp.151–157)
UNHOMING (3 of 4)
Phil Baber
(pp.150–162)
EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE;
TRANSCRIBING OSTEON
Naomi Pearce
(pp.165–170)
HOW DOES A WORK END?
Karen Di Franco
(pp.173–193)
METONYMY Op.1 & Op.2
James Bulley
(pp.197–201)
AFRIKAN ALPHABETS EXTENDED
Saki Mafundikwa
(pp.204–207)
SUSAN HILLER: 1983
Natalie Ferris
(pp.209–217)
EVERY TELLING HAS A TALING /
EVERY STORY HAS AN ENDING
Matthew Stuart
(pp.220–233)
GRAPHIC PROPRIOCEPTION
James Langdon
(pp.235–254)
UNHOMING (4 of 4)
Phil Baber
(pp.257–263)
TUNNELLING AND AGGREGATING
FOR DESIGN RESEARCH
Bryony Quinn (text) &
Peter Nencini (images)
(pp.265–272)
LET IT PERCOLATE:
A MANIFESTO FOR READING
Sophie Seita
(pp.275–280)
VIA: 48 DANTE VARIATIONS
(2000–2020) — A NEW INFERNO
Caroline Bergvall
(pp.284–287 & pp.1, 2, 3, 14, 20, 21, 22, 34, 48, 49, 50, 63, 64, 117, 118, 125, 126, 135, 136,
145,
146,
148, 149, 150, 158, 163, 164, 171, 172, 194, 195, 196, 202, 203, 208, 218, 219, 232, 233, 234,
255,
256,
264, 274, 281, 282, 283, 288)
MARIST: A NOTE ON THE TYPE
Seb McLauchlan
(insert)
TO SEE AND KNOW MORE
Maria Fusco
(insert & pp.6, 14, 32, 40, 50, 60, 80, 92, 106, 120, 134, 146, 156, 162, 174, 190, 196, 210,
216,
226,
232,
246, 268, 276)
AS CELEBRATION, AS CRITIQUE, AS PLAY:
RON HUNT, SELECTED WRITINGS (1957–2020)
Edited by Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh-Lister
148 × 210mm, 224pp. + dust jacket + insert
Edition of 400, ISBN 978-0-9956835-3-2
Published by BFTK, March 2020, London
ACACAP (£26 + shipping)
The first standalone title on the BFTK imprint, ‘As Celebration, As Critique, As Play’ pulls
together
selected writings by Ron Hunt across his varied career as a writer, librarian, curator, critic
and
self
described ‘lapsed anarchist’. Structured as a ‘biographic bibliography’ supplemented with
annotations
and contextual notes, ‘As Celebration, As Critique, As Play’ combines commissioned writing and
previously unpublished texts that range from exhibition catalogue essays and détourned Q&As, to
A–Z
indexes and cherry-picked readers. Writings reproduced in full include:
- Francis Picabia: Introduction (1964)
- Yves Klein: A Mythopoeic of the Plurisignative (1967)
- The Arts in Our Time (1968)
- We Are Revealing New Pages of Art in Anarchy’s New Dawns (1968)
- Interview with Brigitte Bardot (1969) (preview)
- Poetry must be made by all! / Transform the world! (1969)
- An Interview with Pontus Hultén, Stockholm 1981 (1971)
- For Factography! (1976)
- Andreas Gursky (1999)
- Kalf: A Late Perspective (2000)
- Dreams of / Fears of …… Flying (2009)
- Fourier / Breton / Cherries (2017)
- Hélène Cixous or Waiting for Tears (2018)
- Some Books of Barbara Bloom (2019)
- A Very Brief Dictionary in the Vicinity of Situationism (2019)
- ‘Recovery’ / Is Recovery Possible (2020)
with photographs by Tom McCaughan
typeset in Janson Max Neue by Dinamo & Sam de Groot
BRICKS FROM THE KILN #3
Edited by Andrew Lister & Matthew Stuart
170 × 224.764mm, 120pp. + pvc dust jacket + insert
Published as text, image and sound
Edition of 700, ISBN 978‐0‐9956835‐1‐8
TTC‐120, October 2018, London & New York
BFTK#3 (£12 + shipping)
*SOLD OUT*
BFTK#3 supporting audio here
Intro
OSKA (movement 3)
James Bulley (p.2)
One
A TYPOGRAPHIC CHRONICLE
OF STOPS AND STARTS
Bryony Quinn (pp.3–12)
Two
OKAY, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS
THAT I’D LIKE TO ASK
Matthew Stuart talks with Nayia Yiakoumaki
(pp.13–28)
Three
HET LIEDEKEN
Astrid Seme (pp.29–32)
Four
SOFT ROCK FOR HARD TIMES
Mark Owens (pp.33–44)
Five
CRAFTMANSHIP and AFTER CRAFTMANSHIP
Virginia Woolf with Paul Bailey and
Sophie Demay (pp.45–60)
Six
DISAPPEARING INSIDE A
RED GRANITE-CLAD CORRELATE
Till Wittwer (pp.61–70)
Seven
CAMPANOLOGIA BOLOGNA
Emma Smith (pp.71–74 & insert)
Eight
BRUCE MCLEAN INTERVIEWS HIMSELF
Bruce McLean and Bruce McLean (pp.75–86)
Nine
AFTEREADING
Alexandru Balgiu (pp.87–90)
Ten
‘A MIXTURE OF SEMANTICS, POETRY AND
MARKETING’ APPROACHES TO THE TYPEFACE
DESIGN OF INUKTITUT SYLLABICS
David Bennewith (pp.91–114)
Eleven
TELL ME, WHAT IS?
Nontsikelelo Mutiti and Tinashe Mushkavanhu
(pp.115–118)
Outro
OSKA (movement 3 reprise)
James Bulley (p.119)
BRICKS FROM THE KILN #2
Edited by Andrew Lister & Matthew Stuart
170 × 224.764mm, 84pp. + pvc dust jacket + insert
Edition of 700 (675 bound / 25 unbound)
ISBN 978‐0‐9956835‐0‐1
TTC‐106, November 2016, London
BFTK#2 (£12 + shipping)
*SOLD OUT*
PERIPHERIES
Ryan Gerald Nelson (signature-wraps A & G)
THE LANGUAGE OF ‘PERIPHERIES’
Ryan Gerald Nelson (pp.3–4)
James Bulley (pp.5–22)
PHOTOGRAPHS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (1964)
Daphne Oram (signature-wrap B)
IN THE BACKGROUND
Céline Condorelli & James Langdon (pp.27–34)
ALGORITHMIC ARABESQUE
Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism
(signature-wrap D)
VANDALIST ICONOPHILIA
Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism
(pp.39–46)
MORE OR LESS
(Compiled by) Mark Simmonds (pp.51–58)
EXIGENCIES
Flights and Fissures / David Whelan (signature-wrap F)
NEURO-DEBTS
David Whelan (pp.63–65)
MALEVICH’S COFFIN AND THE MONUMENT QUESTION
Ron Hunt (pp.66–79)
AFTER NIJHOF & LEE
Rose Gridneff (pp.80–81)
BRICKS FROM THE KILN #1
Edited by Andrew Lister & Matthew Stuart
170 × 224.764mm, 138pp. + 2 inserts
Edition of 700, ISSN 2397‐0227
TTC‐090, December 2015, London
BFTK#1 (£12 + shipping)
*SOLD OUT*
FRAGMENTS OF A CONVERSATION WITH RON HUNT
Andrew Lister, Matthew Stuart & Ron Hunt (pp.1–20)
RALPH RUMNEY: THE SHAPE OF HEADS TO COME
Natalie Ferris (pp.21–34)
THE LEANING TOWER OF VENICE
Ralph Rumney (pp.35–38)
OBSERVATIONS FROM
A FIXED POSITION
James Langdon (pp.39–44 & insert #1) (read
here)
VAPEGAZE
Mark Owens (pp.45–55)
WORDS FALLING FROM
THE SKY LIKE BLOSSOM
Jamie Sutcliffe (pp.56–64)
WESTERING
Iain Sinclair (pp.65–88)
PICKING UP, TURNING
OVER, PUTTING WITH
Traven T. Croves (pp.90–107)
“STAY HUNGRY. STAY FOOLISH”, SAID THE ACADEMY AND
FED US TO THE LIONS. OR: STARVING WITH A LOT OF LOVE IN YOUR STOMACH
Parallel School (pp.108–117)
MUSIQUES D’AUTREFOIS,
ÉCHOS D’AUJOURD’HUI: A
STUDY ROOM ON THE WORKS
OF PIERRE FAUCHEUX
Catherine Guiral (pp.118–136)
GRAND COUPES
Max Harvey, He Pianpian & Li You (insert #2)
Andrew Lister & Matthew Stuart (inside cover folds)
(read here)
EDITIONS
BFTK editions, prints, etc. available here
(updated intermittently)
Distribution:
- Antenne Books (Europe)
Stockists:
- Actual Source, Provo
- After 8 Books, Paris
- Ahorn Books, Berlin
- Appendix, Columbus
- Artbook MoMA PS1, New York
- Artwords Bookshop, London
- Basheer Graphic Books, Singapore
- BOOKS Peckham, London
- Burning House Books, Glasgow
- Cafe OTO, London
- Camden Arts Centre, London
- Do You Read Me?, Berlin
- Draw Down Books, Connecticut
- Espace Projet, Montreal
- Family, Los Angeles
- Frab's Magazines & More, Forlì
- Funk Magazine, Köln
- Good Press, Glasgow
- Graham Foundation, Chicago
- The Hastings Bookshop, Hastings
- Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin
- ICA Bookshop, London
- Inga, Chicago
- Kosmos, Zurich
- Librarie Yvon Lambert, Paris
- London Centre for Book Arts, London
- Lugemik, Tallinn
- Magalleria, Bath
- MagCulture, London
- Mast Books, New York
- McNally Jackson, New York
- Papercut, Stockholm
- Peste, Manchester
- PrintRoom, Rotterdam
- Rare Mags, Stockport
- Reading Room, Milan
- rile*, Brussels
- Room 312, Vancouver
- San Serriffe, Amsterdam
- Skylight Books, Los Angeles
- Studio Nock, Gothenburg
- Tambourine, Madrid
- Tenderbooks, London
- Topics, Berlin
- Ulises, Philadelphia
- Unitom, Manchester
- Village, Leeds & Manchester
- XXXI (Thirty One), New York
Libraries / Collections:
- Art Book in China, Bejing
- British Library, London
- Graham Foundation, Chicago
- Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, SAIC, Chicago
- Kingston School of Art Library, London
- Little Magazines Collection, UCL, London
- Manchester Metropolitan University Library, Manchester
- Marquand Art Library, Princeton University, Princeton
- Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
- National Art Library, V&A, London
- National Poetry Library, London
- Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown
- Robert B. Haas Library, Yale University, New Haven
- Ron Burnett Library, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
- Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Bibliothek, Karlsruhe
- Tate Library, London
- University for the Creative Arts Library, Epsom
- Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Winchester School of Art Library, Winchester