#Egidija Ciricaite

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No. 18 of the TYPEWRITTEN series: WEAVING PATTERNS FOR POETRY by Egidija Čiricaitė.

"Inspired by Lithuanian textile patterns, my visual poems are typewritten into the twilight space between weaving, writing and speaking. Traditionally, weaving used to happen during long winter evenings; it was accompanied by singing and storytelling — thus tying together the craft of textiles and the craft of narration. WEAVING PATTERNS FOR POETRY explores traditional Lithuanian bedspread patterns, exploiting (often) bilingual shifts between words and concepts, composing poetry as a score between the visual and the verbal, the verbal and the aural, the aural and the auratic, the auratic and the material. " (Egidija Čiricaitė)

This book contains 6 typewritten visual poems and 6 printer's summeries.

Printed on an old Gestetner 320 mimeograph. Hand-bound edition of 60 copies, 62 pages, 28x21cm landscape size, August 2023.

The TYPEWRITTEN series is edited, printed, hand-bound and published by psw.

Available in my webshop.

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SMALL PUBLISHING UNFAIR! An exhibition curated by Editorial Facsimile to reflect, experiment and discuss about the size in books, support and celebrate small editions. Showcasing 20 bookworks by Cecilia Andalon • Casandra Romero • Edna Cantoral • Gerardo Rivera • Graciela Patron • Ignacio Navarro • Martha Gurrola • Ioulia Akhmadeeva • Mayra Leon • Monica Sanchez • Diego Espinoza • Cesar Rivera • Eduardo Salinas • Francisco Robles • Elodia Corona • Susan Hiller* • Coracle Press* • Edward Ruscha* • Egidija Ciricaite • Mandy Prowse • Chris Gibson • Rafael MC The show is open until 21st May! #bookarts #arts #uk #london #smallpublishingunfair #weareual #artistbook #miniature #mexico #camberwellual #ccw #uallibraries *With special thanks to Camberwell College of Arts Library, University of the Arts London to loan for this exhibition: Hiller, S. (2008) Auras : homage to Marcel Duchamp and Levitations : homage to Yves Klein. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts - Fo(u)ndlings 1978 : an exhibition of 'found' art. (1978) London: Coracle Press - Ruscha, E. (1972) Edward Ruscha (Ed-werd Rew-shay) young artist. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The catalogue and a set of postcards will be available with the support of Universidad de Guadalajara

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The Alignment Tote Bag was produced for the Arnolfini Shop as a supplement to the Alignment Project by Egidija Ciricaite and George Cullen. It is available in the Arnolfini shop and online here: http://collectiveinvestigations.bigcartel.com/product/alignment-tote-bag

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The End of One Chapter

Yesterday we took down the vinyls from the window. I'm sure they were quicker to install! We got a lot of attention from people as we were doing it too, but then whilst the exhibition was on they got a lot of attention as well, with people wandering past and then slowing down to look. I hope they introduced a lot of new people to the bookshop whilst they were up.

For those of you who didn't get to see the window vinyls we turned the front window into a double page-spread, with illustrations on the left page and a dialogue on the right.

The dialogue came from our publication and more specifically from a conversation we had about what we felt about the idea of 'codex'. The hope was that the slightly cryptic, but informal nature of the text would draw people in and intrigue them, starting a little dialogue within them about the nature of books.

I can't quite believe how quickly this project has come about and how much discussion and thought, and artwork (of course), it has created. Now the exhibition, and workshops are behind us, it will be great to spend some time with the publication and to continue to build on the ideas and thoughts started here.

[alignmentarnolfiniley]

The Alignment Tote Bag was produced for the Arnolfini Shop as a supplement to the Alignment Project by Egidija Ciricaite and George Cullen. It is available in the Arnolfini shop and online here: http://collectiveinvestigations.bigcartel.com/product/alignment-tote-bag

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The Arnolfini Ley Print forms part of the Alignment Project by Egidija Ciricaite and George Cullen and is available in the Arnolfini Shop. 

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Thanks!

Thanks so much for all of you that got involved in the project, either through the talks, the publication, the workshops or the exhibition - it was a really memorable event.

So, now the publication is out there in the world.  We hope you enjoy it.

Keep posted for future developments from Collective Investigations and Codex: Between This and That.

For feedback, or further information please contact us at investigationsproject@gmail.com

(Chris)

Photo credit: Amanda Lane

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outside the box

___________ “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.” Groucho Marx. ____________ The last contributions for the book are dropping in. There is a range of views. Moreover - about 77% of people who agreed to write in are somewhere between superb and outstanding at “thinking outside the box”.   I am astounded by the span of thoughts and vocabulary used. Q1: Is it because those people are thinking their thoughts and not mine that they seem  so much more creatively insightful?

The ability to think in novel and useful ways has been the defining feature of humans. We invented the wheel, which is nothing like any of the mutations and instruments found in nature. We invented the codex so perfect, it had not changed it's fundamental structure for over a thousand years. We invented the electricity and the lightbulb. And then we coined the term "lightbulb moment".

This week's Horizon (still available on BBC iPlayer)) was about the brain and the insight and how all of that works: how without thinking logically and methodically we come up with extraordinary ideas. Insight moments, as it turns out, are fleeting and elusive - no wonder I struggle to capture them! They do not come from nowhere, but they are a result of a chain of events and they require awareness bordering obsession. Each problem has an insight bubbling in the background. It is the right hemisphere, apparently, that is capable to making far reaching connections. Q2. Do people, who are blind in the right eye - so all input information is first streamed to their right hemisphere - make more insightful associations?

In two weeks I am going to the lecture by Professor Vincent Walsh about lightbulb moments. I expect it will be currious and illuminating. ←This sounds like one of those James Bond puns. Very uncreative of me.

 {Egidija}

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This morning the mailbox received one more contribution to our book. The last few weeks have been framed by “contributions admin” and “contributions admin”. Plus some banking and printing. Plus very little and very rudimentary cooking - my kids did not mind swapping Ottolenghi for pasta and more pasta. Then there was a day in Hoxton, a large parcel to Pauline (http://www.burntbarn.co.uk/) with books and cards for the Leeds Fair. Plus a packed lunch, a few glasses of wine and two unnecessary casualties - one of them being a harlequin rasbora. The casualties have nothing to do with wine. Linchpinning the project and the family. Those last two few weeks were supposed to include 2.5 days of work for the project. In reality, they have included 5 days and 2.5. nights. Anyway. This morning our mailbox received one more contribution to our book. I look. I read. It is beautiful, sublime, thought provoking. Every new message reveals one more piece of a jigsaw puzzle, which is our book. A stupendously exciting experience! Linchpinning the book. Dealing with such a variety of amazing people have elbowed me into areas, subjects and topics that I was not aware of before, like informationist poetry and Armenian gospel bindings. I will try to cover those in a separate entry. Linchpinning the knowledge. Unfortunately, “contributions admin” has left little time to contemplate over my own work for the show. I have a number of ideas floating about, but no decisions or prototypes made. How am I going to use the space in the shop? How will it work as a collaboration between us and the shop? How will it work within the community of the street? Linchpinning the show. PS Here is one of my last week’s wonderful discoveries: Hedge Sparrows by Richard Price. Hedge Sparrows You don’t see many hedges these days, and the hedges you do see they’re not that thorny, it’s a shame, and when I say a hedge I’m not talking about a row of twigs between two lines of rusty barbed wire, or more likely just a big prairie where there were whole cities of hedges not fifty years ago, a big desert more like, and I mean thick hedges, with trees nearby for a bit of shade and a field not a road not too far off so you can nip out for an insect or two when you or the youngsters feel like a snack, a whole hedgerow system, as it says in the book, and seven out of ten sparrows say the same, and that’s an underestimate, we want a place you can feel safe in again, we’re social animals, we want our social life back, and the sooner the better, because in a good hedge you can always talk things over, make decisions, have a laugh if you want to, sing, even with a voice like mine!   (Egidija)