seekers of lice proposes art as an insect bite, infecting the blood through proximity, anecdote, annexation, colonisation, infection, inoculation: scratch the itch & itch the scratch. seekers of lice works with text, image and objects. Works include writing for performance, including collaboration with other artists, making objects and text pieces for exhibition, talks, interventions, and writing
seekers of lice proposes art as an insect bite, infecting the blood through proximity, anecdote, annexation, colonisation, infection, inoculation: scratch the itch & itch the scratch. seekers of lice works with text, image and objects. Works include writing for performance, including collaboration with other artists, making objects and text pieces for exhibition, talks, interventions, and writing for publication in books and magazines. Works are sometimes of an ephemeral nature, finding gaps and spaces in which to operate. Recent books include Encyclops. (IF P THEN Q ) and Fly-leaf. seekers of lice has work in various collections including Tate Library, Tate Britain; Modern British Collections, The British Library; MoMA Library, USA ; Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, USA; Chelsea College of Art and Design Library, London; Artist's Book Collection, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE; Czytelnia Liberatury Malopolski Instytut Kultury, Kraków, Poland; Jan Michalski Foundation, Switzerland. Contact: [email protected]
Books
2014 Fly-leaf
2014 Encyclops. (IF P THEN Q )
2013 Ephemerides by David Berridge and seekers of lice
2013 Limber (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press)
2012 Theatre of Objects (VerySmallKitchen)
2012 NATURES MORTES / STILL LIFES
2011 creamy language
2011 lilmp
2011 The Bride of L'Amor-mor-l'amor
2010 notes / ohms
2010 bird call
2009 moebius dispute : 210 x 148 mm 44pp
2009 eros ridiing a panther
2009 - quandaries book and cd
2008 &1 catalogue of texts for "foreshore : precarious to Rapunzel" 105 x 74 mm ; 112 pp
2008 decimals of feelings 210 x 148 mm ; 42 pp translucent paper
2008 dumb show 3 scripts for a theatre of objects 148 x 105 mm; 40 pp total
2008 quot 198 x 210 mm ; 19 pp translucent paper
2007 seekers of lice 359º catalogue of texts for "East End 359º" ; 210 x 148 mm ; 44pp
Work published in books, magazines and journals
2016 "tropes of everyday life" commissioned work for OEI 71/72
2015 Guest artist for Collective Investigations with "I read to the middle"
http://collective-investigations.blogspot.com/2015/10/guest-post-i-read-to-middle-seekers-of.html
Collective Investigations is a London based artists’ collective, interested in experimental publishing, book history and book culture.
http://collective-investigations.blogspot.co.uk
2015 "Fly-blown" VLAK 5
2015 Painted, Spoken 27
2013 The Book is A-Live! ed. Emmanuelle Waeckerle and Richard Sawdon Smith
2013 The Other Room Anthology 5 ed. Tom Jenks, James Davies and Scott Thurston
2013 onedit 17
2012 soanyway; eccolinguistics 2.1; Rattle 3; VLAK 3; VerySmallKitchen; quarterafter
Solo Exhibition
2013 Encyclops. news of the world gallery, Deptford, London 29.11.2013 - 18.12.2013
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/notw.html
Curated Exhibitions
2018 3:Am Magazine poembrut#23 (online) curated by Steven Fowler http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/?s=seekers+of+lice
2018 Synapse International visual poetry and text art (online) curated by Philip Davenport
http://synaptry.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/seekers-of-lice.html
2015 7th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2015
Venues including Leipzig Book Fair; Museo Leone, Vercelli, Italy: Vilnius, Lithuania.
2013 X100. An exhibition of books from 100 launches at X marks the Bokship, Bethnal Green
Including "Theatre of Objects"
2013 4 Days, ARNOLFINI, Bristol
2013 Press and Release 2013, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton
2012 A PIGEON, A KITCHEN AND AN ANNEXE: SITES OF ALTERNATIVE PUBLISHING, FIVE YEARS, London
2011 Creamy Language, Totalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 Book Arts Fayre Ffotogallery Cardiff, Cardiff
2010 d a u m e n k i n o - t h u m b c i n e m a, Bookarrtbookshop, 17 Pitfield Street, Hoxton, London
2010 Mill24, Mill24, Manchester
2010 SMALL, The Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh
2010 WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION, The Pigeon Wing, London
2009 Artists’ Publishing Part I, Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England,, Bristol
2009 5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2009, Gallery "Arka", Vilnius, Lithuania., Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 In Their Own Words, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
2008 GOODS In curated by Charlie Levine and Harminder Singh Judge, Furniture Factory, 332 - 346 Moseley Road, Birmingham
2008 WRAPPED and encased IN LIVERPOOL 08, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool
2007 "Upstaging Nature (You Can't See The Art For The Trees)", Lookoutpost. London Wildlife Trust, London
2007 Slow Light, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Live/Performance
2013 "I'm too lonely for that" Short film of texts and images Small Publishers Fair 2013
2013 THE NOTECARDS at the SouthBank Centre with pressfreepress
http://thenotecards.wordpress.com/
2012 EXPERIMENTAL POETRY, The Other Room, Manchester
2012 Theatre of Objects, Small Publishers Fair, London
2011 'A Minor Poet of the 21st Century: 59 index cards in no particular order', Small Publishers Fair 2011, London
2010 l i g h t d r i f t, Thames Embankment, North Side, above Lambeth Bridge, London
2009 Q – Quot - Reading for Resonance Radio's Encyclopodia 26 interviews on and around the subject of books, to accompany the London Art Book Fair 2009 , Whitechapel Gallery, London E1
Intervention
2012 Paper Bags series 3 natures mortes / s t i l l l i f e s, ARNOLFINI; Walter Koenig Books Serpentine Gallery; Marcus Campbell Art Books;Bookartbookshop, Bristol and London 2012 - Paper Bags series 3 natures mortes / s t i l l l i f e s, Aye-Aye Books, Glasgow
2010 LOUSE FACTORY, Arnolfini, Bristol 2010 - LOUSE FACTORY, Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery, London 2010 - LOUSE FACTORY, Marcus Campbell Art Books, London
2008 foreshore : precarious to Rapunzel, Thames foreshore, opposite Tate Modern, London
2008 quandaries, bookartbookshop, Hoxton, London; Ikon Gallery Bookshop, Birmingham; Marcus Campbell Art Books, London; Art Words Bookshop, London; The Permanent Gallery, Brighton; Mr Cappuccino, 12 Hooper Street, London E1 8BP; Arnolfini Bookshop, Bristol; Here Shop & Gallery, 108 Stokes Croft, Bristol
2008 triangulation point // "LA POESIE EST DORENAVANT DANS LA RUE", public area : the green beside Adler Street E1 and Whitechapel Road, opposite WHITECHAPEL, London
2008 triangulation point // "LA POESIE EST DORENAVANT DANS LA RUE", public area: quayside opposite the Watershed, Bristol
2007 East End 359º , installation on the street, Aldgate East to Old Street, London
Solo exhibitions
2009 seekers of lice at bookartbookshop, bookartbookshop, Hoxton, London N1 6HB
2009 seekers of lice 359º, Bookshop and Reading Room, Arnolfini Gallery , Bristol BS1 4QA
Artist talks
2012 Invent the Present III Book Live Conference London South Bank University, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUATnOxUUM0&feature=youtu.be
2011 I am not a Poet I'm a Minor Poet of the Twenty-First Century Totalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 Invent the Present Chelsea College of Art, Chelsea College of Art, London
2009 Escape routes exist : questions and statements School of Creative Arts, University of the West of England, Bristol, Bristol
2009 seekers of lice in conversation with William English, Resonance FM, London
Competitions, prizes and awards
2009 Shortlist for Michael Marks Pamphlet Award, The British Library / The Poetry Book Society, London
Public Collections
Tate Library Tate Britain; Modern British Collections The British Library; MoMA Library Museum of Modern Art New York; Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection The Art Institute of Chicago USA; Chelsea College of Art and Design Library London UK; Artist's Book Collection Centre for Fine Print Research UWE UK; Centre for Artists' Books, University of Dundee; University and State Library of Dusseldorf Germany; Czytelnia Liberatury Malopolski Instytut Kultury, Kraków, Poland; Archive ARNOLFINI Bristol UK; Bury Art Musesum UK.
Other
2015 review of Encyclops. Sabotage reviews http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/05/18/encyclops-by-seekers-of-lice/
2014 review of Encyclops.http://imaseriousjournalistyouknow.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/encyclops/
2012 review of seekers of lice at The Other Room http://artoffiction.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-other-room.html
2012 THEATRE OF OBJECTS: A DIALOGUE WITH SEEKERS OF LICE http://verysmallkitchen.com/2012/09/24/theatre-of-objects-a-dialogue-with-seekers-of-lice/
2012 Speaker at BOOK LIVE! Conference, London South Bank University, London
2007 Saatchi Online Critics' Choice By Catherine Taft http://magazine.saatchionline.com/contributors/seekers_of_lice_saatchi_online
