Again, A Time Machine A Book Works touring exhibition in fi ve parts

Part fi ve: Stewart HomeWhite Columns, New YorkOpening Friday 21 October 6–8pm22 October to 19 November 2011

Again, A Time Machine Again, A Time Machine Again, A Time Machine Again, A Time Machine

22 October to 19 November 2011

The key for me has been rhythm since so far back that I’ve forgotten why, or when. Probably somewhere just prior to my teens, when I was twelve and stepped, tipped, into the resonant chamber, or chasm, that was jazz. Because you do fall into jazz. It’s a free fall. It’s a freed music … a space loaded with the possibilities of rhythms that can be at once complex and simple if one recognises that improvisation and actualisation can spin one on a pivot that slices through space. I think I stepped backwards into it, by which I mean I didn’t see it coming. I was just there, in that space, momentarily a void, endless possibilities, being able to explode within my feelings, my emotions, my body. At that time I still had to hurdle through puberty and all its obstacles, to � nd ways to discipline myself enough to be able to explore and research, the tenets of my life I guess.

When I was in that chasm, that endless depth, that was when I discovered that words crumbled before my eyes, that they were never solid, never would be, that is when I discovered the precipice that each experience in life, each act of creativity, offered … and I understood that I was going to need to keep control of my senses if I personally was going to be able to let go, to survive. Survive within myself, of course, that’s what I’m talking about. Or, to put it another way, put it another way, that moment when that moment when I stepped into words I stepped into words themselves and felt themselves and felt their innerness, their innerness, their inner rhythms, their inner rhythms, heartbeats, their heartbeats, their being in themselves was going to become the basis of my life. The passion from which all else would splutter. When that happened I have no idea.

Again, A Time MachineA Book Works touring exhibition

Part fi veStewart Home

Opening Friday 21 October, 6–8pm

Performance: Stewart Home and Kenneth GoldsmithSaturday 22 October, 6.30pm

Continues22 October to 19 November 2011Open Tuesday to Saturday12–6pm

White Columns320 West 13th Street(Enter on Horatio Street, between Hudson and 8th Avenue)New York, NY 10014Tel. 212 924 4212Fax 212 645 4764www.whitecolumns.org

ForthcomingThe Showroom, London29 November 2011 to 20 May 2012

PastSpike Island, Bristol16 September to 9 October 2011

The Showroom, London14 June to 5 July 2011

Motto Berlin6 May to 2 June 2011

Eastside Projects, Birmingham26 February to 16 April 2011

Book Works19 Holywell RowLondon EC2A 4JBTel. +44 (0)20 7247 2203www.bookworks.org.uk

From his earliest work Stewart Home has expressed an avantgardist desire to write himself into the archive of culture. Mixing myth and polemic, with plagarism and a savage ideological critique, the parodic manifestos of Generation Positive, progressed into the self-historicising magazine Smile, the Neoists, and � nally The Art Strike— an aggressive appropriation of Gustav Metzger’s strike proposal. Home’s return to anti-art practice saw the publication of a rash of polymorphous perversities, including Red London, and De� ant Pose, exhibitions at City Racing, workfortheeyetodo, and with Imprint 93, as well as ongoing performance, prank and � lm work. His cultural output now forms a signi� cant archive of counter-cultural activities, not only written into the archive of culture, but networked across it, in a practice which seamlessly moves between unearthing unknown radical histories such as Black Mask — Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, reworkings of Lettrist Cinema, and writing projects, such as Book Works’ recent Semina series.

Presented as part of Again, A Time Machine, alongside the ongoing A Poster Project by A Poster Project by A Poster ProjectJonathan Monk, this is the � rst US retrospective of Home’s work and features a selection of artwork, including Art Strike Bed, Vermeer II and Vermeer II and Vermeer II Becoming (M)other, publications and ephemera and a live performance with Kenneth Goldsmith.

Material from Book Works Archive:

Invitation card for From the Ruins, an installation by Glyn Banks and Hannah Vowels at Book Works (1985).

Images from Stewart Home’s archive, including Becoming (Mother), Prostitution II and Prostitution II and Prostitution II Smile ephemera.

Artist’s response to the questions ‘What is previous?’ ‘What is next?’:

‘The key for me …’ extracted from an interview with Paul Buck by Javier Marchán (October 2007).

Again, A Time Machine, printed matter:

A Poster Project, by Jonathan Monk (2011).

79. 89. 09., newspaper by Slavs and Tatars, co-published by Book Works and Eastside Projects (2011).

All the Stories, by Dora García, co-published by Book Works and Eastside Projects (2011).

Book Works is funded by Arts Council England. Project supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts; The Henry Moore Foundation; and material for Stewart Home archive generously lent by Mark Pawson.

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