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SPOOOOL: The Complete Poet Rolls / Lebon, Elizabeth., 2015

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Identifier: CC-60917-10003774

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Scope and Contents

Spooool reproduces the one-off rolls written by Elizabeth Lebon between 2013 and 2014. The artist wrote with a typewriter on till rolls. "From Newquay to Brooksby's Walk" is 23 metres long. "Forwards not Forwards", "Tide Weighs Four", "Water Looking, Letter, Yes", and "Bodies" are all 10 m by 6 cm. These five texts tune in as five voices to Elizabeth Lebon's literary manifesto -- a 63-metre long typescript. The typewriter was used as a pretext for staying away from contemporary writing cliches. Repetition, mistakes, and fragile paper turn these rolls into an archetypal masterwork that took two years in the making, during which the artist's relationship with writing constantly drifted between form and content. Lebon developed a performance-oriented personal language, consistent with the very nature of her performances (see Twelve Tapestries). She sees this arrangement as a new form of writing that questions the sounds of her language -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 2015

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (85 pages)) ; 28.4 x 20.8 x 1.1 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

shelf alphabetical

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Amanda Keeley, 2015.

General

Published: Geneva, Switzerland : BOABOOKS. Nationality of creator: Swiss. General: About 100 total copies. About 83 number copy. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: BARB.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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