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- A Field Guide - 015 'A Stupid Place To Hide A Key'

Sequential Edition Published on the 21st of June 2024

Hand-Stitched

160 gsm Recycled Cardboard Cover

150 gsm Transparent Vellum Flyleaf

80 gsm Recycled Paper

54 Inner Pages

105x150mm

ISSN 2753-8184

Published on the 21st day of each month, employing dream logic ‘- a field guide -’ offers a sequence of instructions and insights into the process of modern living.

Each month’s field guide takes a minimalist excursion through a different theme, applying dream logic framework to esoteric practice and ordinary beauty.

Every field guide is written & illustrated by Andrew Shaw. Every field guide features a centre page spread from Philip Newcombe.

‘A Stupid Place To Hide A Key’ - a field guide - 015 is available online via the Silent Academy website, or anywhere you buy print media - simply ask for ‘a field guide ISSN 2753-8184’

Please read slowly. A STUPID PLACE TO HIDE A KEY - A FIELD GUIDE - 015 - WILL BE PUBLISHED ON 21ST JUNE 2024. ANY ORDERS MADE BEFORE THAT DATE WILL SHIP FIRST CLASS UK MAIL ONE DAY BEFORE.

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- A Field Guide - 12 Edition Subscription

A mail order subscription to - a field guide - editions 014-026, mailed out in a discreet brown envelope via first class mail on the 21st day of each month.

Purchased individually each edition costs £12, via subscription each edition costs about £8.30

12 x Hand-Stitched editions

160 gsm Recycled Cardboard Cover

150 gsm Transparent Vellum Flyleaf

80 gsm Recycled Paper

54 Inner Pages

105x150mm

ISSN 2753-8184

Published on the 21st day of each month, employing dream logic ‘- a field guide -’ offers a sequence of instructions and insights into the process between thoughts.

Each month’s field guide takes a minimalist excursion through a different theme.

Every field guide will be written & illustrated by Andrew Shaw. Every field guide will feature a centre page spread from Philip Newcombe.

Purchased individually one edition of - a field guide - costs £12. Twelve copies in bought in subscription cost £100.

Occasional extras will be included in the publication.

Please read slowly.

ISSN 2753-8184

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- A Field Guide - 014 'The Sacred Tremor'

Sequential Edition Published on the 21st of May 2024

Hand-Stitched

160 gsm Recycled Cardboard Cover

150 gsm Transparent Vellum Flyleaf

80 gsm Recycled Paper

54 Inner Pages

105x150mm

ISSN 2753-8184

Published on the 21st day of each month, employing dream logic ‘- a field guide -’ offers a sequence of instructions and insights into the process of modern living.

Each month’s field guide takes a minimalist excursion through a different theme, applying dream logic framework to esoteric practice and mundane beauty.

Every field guide will be written & illustrated by Andrew Shaw. Every field guide will feature a centre page spread from Philip Newcombe.

‘The Sacred Tremor’ - a field guide - 014 is available online via the Silent Academy website, or anywhere you buy print media - simply ask for ‘a field guide ISSN 2753-8184’

Please read slowly.

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John Blund

Book Title: John Blund

Author: Rebecca Stenfors

Page Count: 52

Trim: 120mm x 120mm

Format: Paperback book with accompanying postcard from inside the dream.

ISBN  978-1-7391634-2-6  Price: £10.00

Publish Date: 21st April 2024

In John Blund, Rebecca Stenfors revisits the story from an earlier video work called John Blund, or The Sandman (2022). The film came about when the artist asked her father to tell her a bedtime story, which he dictates as the pair sit at the kitchen table, the daughter, transcribing the text in broken mother-tongue. The book contains a fragment from this film: the English translation of the script, which the artist worked on together with her father. Unfolding with the staggered pace of lullaby, the text, interrupted by conventions of dictation and oral storytelling, comes to an end before the actual tale has even begun. The story that we are left with is an attempt to cling onto a memory that has long since passed.

An attempt to administrate a memory of a childhood story, with a full stop.

Endorsement of John Blund by Annika Ström

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Items of Deadpan Wonder

Pamphlet Title: Items of Deadpan Wonder

Author: Andrew Shaw

Format: Trifold high quality cardboard pamphlet

Price: £2.50

Publish Date: 22 December 2023 - ORDERS PLACE BEFORE THIS DATE WILL BE DISPATCHED ON DAY OF PUBLICATION.

Items of Closer Music

Andrew Shaw

Published on the Autumn Equinox of 2023 this pamphlet is an exploration of things like love and grief and interwoven. conflicting truths.

Contained here are four exercises which take water as the element of delivery and foundation.

You will experience isolation, the sensation of floating away from the shore, of being rooted to the bottom, of swallowing salt.

This pamphlet may inspire you to steal a clock from a library wall. 

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Items of Closer Music

Pamphlet Title: Items of Closer Music

Author: Andrew Shaw

Format: Trifold high quality cardboard pamphlet

Price: £2.50

Publish Date: 23 September 2023 - ORDERS PLACE BEFORE THIS DATE WILL BE DISPATCHED ON DAY OF PUBLICATION.

Items of Closer Music

Andrew Shaw

Published on the Autumn Equinox of 2023 this pamphlet is an exploration of things like love and grief and interwoven. conflicting truths.

Contained here are four exercises which take water as the element of delivery and foundation.

You will experience isolation, the sensation of floating away from the shore, of being rooted to the bottom, of swallowing salt.

This pamphlet may inspire you to steal a clock from a library wall. 

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SPACEMEN

£120 per roll

Free Delivery to valued customers

Artist: Philip Newcombe

Wallpaper dipped in LSD

Roll Length Variable

3 Designs:

‘Everybody I know can be found here’ ‘Transparent Radiation’ ‘Just to See You Smile’

Sensual Pleasure:

Depending on the design of the luxury wallpaper, it appeals to most or all senses: the visual and haptic sense, as well as the sense of taste and touch. It can have an effect on the sensation of warmth and cold. The imagination is also stimulated by particular designs.

Elegance:

The human brain associates luxury with a sense of elegance which represents the difference to the ordinary. Due to the special features, this elegance is also inherent within the luxurious wallpaper after a short period of time. Generally speaking, it is often the interaction of several components that provides the luxury aspect.

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There Is No Need To Look

Book Title: There Is No Need To Look

Author: Syed Shoaib Mahmood

Page Count: 45

Trim: 120mm x 120mm

Format: Paperback

Price: £10.00

Publish Date: 21st August 2023 ORDERS PLACED BEFORE PUBLICATION DATE WILL BE DISPATCHED ON DAY OF RELEASE

InThere Is No Need To Look Syed Shoaib Mahmood has constructed a kaleidoscopic sequence of imagist verse, stuttered ideas and suggestive commands. An exploration of established faith fractures the known and passes it through a new kind of enquiry, the product of which is part object, part book, part experiential process.

This book will not help you find clarity or make up your mind. This book will help you enjoy uncertainty and celebrate the many minds that you may occupy.

Endorsement of There Is No Need To Look from Fu Kō

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Storm Calming Festival - catalogue

Book Title: STORM CALMING FESTIVAL - catalogue

Authors: Andrew Shaw • Philip Newcombe

ISBN: 978-1-7391634-1-9 

Page Count: 64

GSM: 350

Trim: 4.1 x 5.8 inches

Price: £10.00

Publish Date: 21 July 2023 ORDERS MADE BEFORE THIS DATE WILL BE DISPATCHED ON DAY OF PUBLICATION.

STORM CALMING FESTIVAL - catalogue is a record of objects, images and words that appeared during the Silent Academy Storm Calming Festival. An augmented exhibition that happened at various sites around the world for twenty-one days between 21st May 2023 and 10th June 2023.

Description

About the book

The STORM CALMING FESTIVAL is an exploration of non-dualistic thinking and an amorphous map through the bardos of dream and experience. This catalogue offers a record of the writing, objects, events and performances that occurred throughout the festival and also features some expanded passages and extra writing to offer deeper perspective of the experience.

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Items of Almost Wanting

Pamphlet Title: Items of Almost Wanting

Author: Andrew Shaw

Format: Trifold high quality cardboard pamphlet

Price: £2.50

Publish Date: 21 June 2023

Items of Wartime Architecture

Andrew Shaw

Published on the spring equinox of 2023 this pamphlet is an exploration of compassion in action.

Contained here are four exercises which encourage you to move or be motionless as perfectly as possible.

You will experience swollen rivers. You will experience the division of your own cells.  You will become a mountain which believes it cannot move.

This pamphlet may inspire you to dismantle clocks, oppose war, and do something beautiful and useless. 

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Storm Calming Festival

EVENT NEWS

Storm Calming Festival - blends together all aspects of The Silent Academy’s work; performance, object, publication, augmented online and real world durational experiences. It is an exploration of particle and wave.

Storm Calming Festival is a twenty-one day real world and online exhibition. Commencing with installation of a precisely engineered clock, set five seconds behind time at the Greenwich Observatory.

Twenty-one days later, elsewhere on the shadow meridian, The Silent Academy will reveal a second object - a collection of seven rubber stamps, each carrying a three line expression of minimalist psychedelia describing the Bardo Thodol.

During the Storm Calming Festival the Silent Academy in collaboration with 工工工 will share the most beautiful piece of music in the world.

Some time after the Storm Calming Festival an accompanying installation catalog / extended essay will be printed and sold; containing details of interventions and performances, happening along the shadow meridian, built as a kind of bridge between first and final objects.

Updates and installations will be shared on the

STORM CALMING FESTIVAL WEBSITE

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- a field guide - Complete Collection & Companion Reader

Collection of all field guides in Silent Academy Dispatch Paper bound with red ribbon.

12 x Hand-Stitched editions

Recycled Cardboard Cover

Transparent Vellum Flyleaf

Recycled Paper

50 Inner Pages

105x150mm

ISSN 2753-8184

All 12 editions of The Silent Academy - field guide - with a companion reader. With words by Andrew Shaw and centre page spread by Philip Newcombe, supplementary inserts have been provided by Fu Kō. This is a dream logic excursion - a cyclical route through a thematic list of contemporary concerns. An unspooling narrative employs psychedelic minimalism to point at interweaving stories - the reflection of all elements in a web of jewels.

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- A Field Guide - 012 - 'Making the Ocean'

Sequential Edition Published on the 21st of April 2023

Hand-Stitched

Recycled Cardboard Cover

Transparent Vellum Flyleaf

Recycled Paper

50 Inner Pages

105x150mm

ISSN 2753-8184

Published on the 21st day of each month, employing dream logic ‘- a field guide -’ offers a sequence of instructions and insights into the process between thoughts.

Each month’s field guide takes a minimalist excursion through a different theme.

Every field guide will be written & illustrated by Andrew Shaw. Every field guide will feature a centre page spread from Philip Newcombe.

Making the Ocean - a field guide - 012 is available online via the Silent Academy website, or anywhere you buy print media - simply ask for ‘a field guide ISSN 2753-8184’

Please read slowly.

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Items of Wartime Architecture

Pamphlet Title: Items of Wartime Architecture

Author: Andrew Shaw

Format: Trifold high quality cardboard pamphlet

Price: £2.50

Publish Date: 20 March 2023

Items of Uncovered Hush

Brittany V Wilder 

Published on the Winter Solstice of 2022 this pamphlet is an exploration of radical vulnerability.

Contained here are four exercises which place the mind and body together in an excursion of expression and reflection.

You will experience wet hair. You will experience nocturnal meanderings, the presence of cats.  The spit and spirit of love.

This pamphlet may inspire you to stare in the mirror and away from the mirror and back to the mirror and away. 

Andrew Shaw - 2022

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- A Field Guide - 011 - 'Unusual Pleasure'

Sequential Edition Published on the 21st of March 2023

Hand-Stitched

Recycled Cardboard Cover

Transparent Vellum Flyleaf

Recycled Paper

50 Inner Pages

105x150mm

ISSN 2753-8184

Published on the 21st day of each month, employing dream logic ‘- a field guide -’ offers a sequence of instructions and insights into the process between thoughts.

Each month���s field guide takes a minimalist excursion through a different theme.

Every field guide will be written & illustrated by Andrew Shaw. Every field guide will feature a centre page spread from Philip Newcombe.

Unusual Pleasure - a field guide - 011 is available online via the Silent Academy website, or anywhere you buy print media - simply ask for ‘a field guide ISSN 2753-8184’

Please read slowly.

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- A Field Guide - 010 - Strangers with Umbrellas

Sequential Edition Published on the 21st of February 2023

Hand-Stitched

Recycled Cardboard Cover

Transparent Vellum Flyleaf

Recycled Paper

50 Inner Pages

105x150mm

ISSN 2753-8184

Published on the 21st day of each month, employing dream logic ‘- a field guide -’ offers a sequence of instructions and insights into the process between thoughts.

Each month’s field guide takes a minimalist excursion through a different theme.

Every field guide will be written & illustrated by Andrew Shaw. Every field guide will feature a centre page spread from Philip Newcombe.

There is Probably a Way to Open it - a field guide - 008 is available online via the Silent Academy website, or anywhere you buy print media - simply ask for ‘a field guide ISSN 2753-8184’

Please read slowly.

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Items of Uncovered Hush

Pamphlet Title: Items of Uncovered Hush

Author: Brittany V Wilder

Format: Trifold high quality cardboard pamphlet

Price: £2.50

Publish Date: 21 December 2022 - (preorders will be dispatched on Publish Date)

Items of Proof & Invention

Brittany V Wilder 

Published on the Autumn Equinox of 2022 this pamphlet is an exploration of tenderness.

Contained here are four exercises which place the mind into oscillating positions of hope and fascination.

You will experience longing. You will experience water, colours, lovers and some kind of loss. 

This pamphlet may inspire you to place distance between objects or remove distance between objects. 

Andrew Shaw - 2022