3-ply and Poly:be Press present the launch of a new artist book by Christopher L G Hill with performative readings at Slopes (Melbourne, Australia on Thurs 22nd May) and Monograph Bookwerks (Portland, USA on Thurs 29th May)
3-ply and Poly:be Press present:
tink thank
by Christopher L G Hill
tink thank by Christopher L G Hill Softcover, 124pp, offset 110 x 180 mm Edition of 500 Design by Nicholas Tammens & Christopher L G Hill Published by 3-ply and Poly:be Press, 2014 ISBN 978-0-9873555-2-2 RRP AUD22.00 / USD20.00 Purchase from 3-ply via World Food Books Purchase from Poly:be Press (USA)
Since 2011, @CLGHill has sustained an open-ended project of twitter poetry, “a florid poem flailing in reflexivity”. In his artist book tink thank, Christopher L G Hill has translated these haiku-like tweets for a non-virtual, printed environment. The result is not an analogue duplication; through addition, subtraction and reformatting, a new multi-stanza work has emerged that explores the lived nature of expression, impression and introspection.
You are warmly invited to celebrate the launch of tink thank with two evenings of performative readings:
@ Slopes (Melbourne, Australia) Thursday 22 May 2014, 5:30 – 7:30 pm 9 Smith St, Fitzroy, VIC 3065
Programme: Christopher L G Hill will present a reading from tink thank, Alex Selenitsch will speak about words, and Justin Clemens will read Et en es… and palindromic poetry.
@ Monograph Bookwerks (Portland, USA) Thursday 29 May 2014, 7:00 – 9:00 pm 5005 NE 27th at Alberta, Portland, OR 97211
Programme: Lisa Radon will read from Prototyping Eutopias, Morgan Ritter will perform a selection of poetry, and excerpts from tink thank will be presented by a poet-actor to be announced.
Visit 3-ply at the MCA Book Fair
Copies of tink thank and other publications from 3-ply will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA/Sydney) Zine Fair. Sunday 24 May 2014, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm. Visit 3-ply + Surpllus at Table 26.
tink thank is jointly published by 3-ply and Poly:be Press 3-ply is an independent publishing initiative that focuses on publication, writing, editing and translation as an extension of art practice. www.3ply.net Poly:be Press is a new imprint that catalyses projects traversing the digital and analogue, including translations, hybrid works, and material archiving of digital ephemera. www.polybepress.net 3-ply is distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Perimeter Distribution. For wholesale orders in other regions, contact 3-ply here or Poly:be Press here. With thanks to: