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is a self-published booklet which combines found technological
images and oblique text to consider
issues of language, technology and ecology.
Published in March, 2001, the No.10
issue is stocked at
PRINTED MATTER, 535 W.20'th
St. New York,
'The format of the books, elongated and staple bound,
reminds me of political pamphlets. The dark, brooding
images are combined with stark text which appear to tell
a threadbare story. The words and images in their combination
appear to tell a story about us, about our world, about
the past and about the future. There is something oppressive
about these booklets, like propaganda, but Friel's focus,
much of the object of his work is appearances,
because those same didactic and oppressive qualities also
constitute the poetics and playfulness of the work. This
ultimately, is what I like about the series: that it takes
something and turns it against itself, and that it is
open ended and invites the reader to participate in it
and try to make their own completion(s).'
.............................Max
Schumann (Printed Matter)
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