prints from this book are available
for the Postcards From Mental States website look here
landscape 229 x 178 mm premium color paperback
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Our collaborative project, Postcards From Mental States started by exchanging digital archives of travelling through America at times when we had both felt overwhelmed; a simple realisation that we tend to document difficult times in our lives. We create archives of ourselves to revise at a time when we are less overwhelmed. We know we are very easy to very easily overwhelmed. If whelm originally meant to overturn, then a vessel is implied here. To overwhelm is to over-repeat turn a vessel. Turning over an engine gets a motorboat started, and yet overturning a boat pauses or stops the boat in the water. Exchanging our personal archives felt like turning over an hourglass. The passage of sand back and forth and back and forth is a soothing and subtle reference to death. The pattern of sand grains runs on the hourglass.
JRL & PH
Nov. 2022
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Exhibition
Photo Poetry Surfaces, Bristol
2021
A ltd edition book published to coincide with the Bristol Photo Festival 2021. and the Photo Poetry Surfaces exhibition catalog.
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Bob Modem’s deconstructions of Martin Wakefield’s reimaginings of Paul Eluard’s illustrations of Man Ray’s drawings from Part 1 ofLes Main Libres.
“Carefully controlled chaos erupts in a collaboration of image and text that suggests no hands have had a part to play in this powerfully emotive visual poetic. I imagine gentle poltergeists and considerate ghosts - imbued with the spirit of surreal energy - become as one to create a symbiotic collection of twenty-first century poems that, I hope like me, you will want to read again and again and again. A remarkable achievement!” - Richard Biddle, author of Consciousness.
Perfect bound paperback, 210mm x 210mm, full colour, 40 pages.
publisher: Steel Incisors £12 buy
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Small Things Happen & Bob Modem
released September 10, 2021
available on Bandcamp - Pay What You Can hereBob Modem made 13 graphic scores.
Peter Jaeger read, improvised, played and recorded them during lockdown in Bristol, 2021.
Together they made six colour A Sides and seven black and white B Sides.
The album download includes a high-quality PDF booklet of all scores.
Bob Modem/Paul Hawkins: graphic scores
Peter Jaeger: electronics and electric guitar
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two collections
one anthology
five exhibitions
multiple, collaborative performances
book launches
workshops
interviews
prints
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Second, expanded edition
150 mm x 230 mm
190 b&w pages
high-resolution PDF £5 buy
paperback £10.00 buy
first edition paperback published in 2015 by Influx Press
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There’s a Place Waste Dissent / DIISONANCE archival website here
Having spent three years in the early 1990s occupying properties and protesting in Claremont Road, east London, in Place Waste Dissent poet Paul Hawkins maps the run-off, rackets and resistance along the route of the proposed M11 Link Road, and then spawned the DIISONANCE collaborations, exhibitions, performances & anthology with artist Steve Ryan.
Using the voices of Dolly Watson, Old Mick and many others in avant-garde experimental text and lo-fi collage, he explores place, waste and dissent; the stake the Thatcher/Major Tory government was driving into the heart of the UK.
From Claremont Road to Cameron via surveillance culture and Occupy: transient-beta memory traces re-surfacing along the A12. This collection is an important reflection on a historic site of resistance, offering us illumination, ideas and inspiration for the future.
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a printed book
publisher: Steel Incisors
due July, 2025
A novel? A novella or a long poem? What is it? Music For The Last Couple scrapes away at the perimeters of language, carving out an unhinged narrative from perceptions of normality, chaos, travel, the art of sound-making and fractured theories after watching/digesting Adam Curtis films. To enrichen the ‘narrative’ chosen words then then fed into an AI photo-generator for added dissonance. Part of Paul’s On The Brink project.
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Album & ltd edition ‘zine are available at the Eachwhat Bandcamp site.
Travel, hyper-focus, movement, dislocation, chaos, disassociation, re-association and Adam Curtis films featured in the mind of Paul Hawkins during it's formation.
An excerpt from On The Brink was published in Issue 3 of
Paul Hawkins: words, field recordings and other noises.
credits
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soundtrack and ‘zine
September 7, 2024
On The Brink is by Paul Hawkins
Other versions of On The Brink exist and will continue to exist.
On The Brink started whilst Paul was working with Julia Rose Lewis on their collaborative project
studio space, exhibitions, workshops, book launches, bookshop etc
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Broadmead, SE Bristol
free empty shop space Via HYPHA STUDIOS
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