No Notes (This is writing), 2017. Artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short composed directly onto an iPhone 5S Notes app. using keyboard and fingers, 152 pages, closed 150 x 80mm.
Booklet Text 144pp + 8pp Inserts (2pp front, 4pp middle, 2pp back) + 4pp Cover + 8pp Gate fold Wrap

No Notes (This is writing) is an artist publication that arose out of a shared interest in what it means to practice writing or something other. Written with Francesca Rendle-Short as a form of “across-speak” texted back and forth through iNotes, the collaborative text is a drafting in action made concrete in poetic notes without revision.

Tuned to the specifics of the page, spacings signal shifts in voice, temporality, lapses and crossings. Neither side is identified with an author and it is no longer possible for either writer to recall precisely who wrote which text.

The material edition has been performed several times as choral, cacophonous, unrehearsed public reading of random pages. Transposing the rhythm of written dialogue into other bodies opens the bounded and printed text to new arrangements and many voices.

[Communal reading, Dialogues and Atmospheres; Enquiries into knowing and making through creative arts research, R.M.I.T., Melbourne, Nov 2015: dual artist reading, Hares and Hyenas, Fitzroy, 2017: Launch +public reading, West Space, Melbourne, Sep 2017;
[The movement of the aside, ARTSPACE Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2018]
[Concurrent communal and artist readings of randomly selected pages: West Space, Melbourne, August 2017 + publication launch; Hares and Hyenas, Melbourne, March 2017; Dialogues and Atmospheres; Enquiries into knowing and making through creative arts research, creative arts research workshop/symposium, nonfictionLab (RMIT) + Creative Ecologies Lab (Macquarie University), R.M.I.T., Melbourne, November 2015]