PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Manifesto is a 160–page handbound book. The opening pages contain an original text employing the sort of bombastic rhetoric traditionally associated with the manifesto genre. The typeset text is then cut up and reassembled, repeating throughout the book, each iteration becoming source material for subsequent cut-ups. The project takes a critical approach to book arts to explore authorship, readership, and the materiality of language.

Limited edition of 250, unnumbered

"Manifesto opens with eight exquisitely surreal declarations, each introduced by a solemn WHEREAS. Then it restarts, repeatedly — each time subjecting these texts to more cuts, strippings and spacings, in an almost cinematic way. As the texts change, they also change your sense of text itself and what it might now become. The manifesto’s promised revolution has taken place, literally, before your eyes."
—Peter Schwenger, author of Asemic: The Art of Writing

"Kind of funny, kind of scary, and very beautiful." —Kay Rosen

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 4.125 x 6

Number of Pages: 160

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Typefaces: Century Expanded; Fabrikat Mono

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Book Designer: Victor Mingovits

Jacket/Cover Designer: Victor Mingovits

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