Colin Sackett: Englshpublshing – Writing and readings 1991-2002

Softcover | 14.5 x 0.8 x 21.5 cm | 96 pp

Coracle | 2004

Edition of 1000

Colin Sackett is an artist and publisher who since the 1980s has investigated the book as a primary form for the reading, notation and classification of landscape by text and image. Englshpublshing came from the notion of remaking, in the same order, everything that he had written and published during the 1990s, beginning from the model for a hypothetical journal.

As this idea crystallised – of going back a set distance and then proceeding towards the present – the retrospective view of the work seemed new, thatthe familiar, the already done, had now become completely different. Along with unpublished work, much of thematerial had been made available in a distinct variety of separate formats. The project of reformatting becameone of unifying and integrating inside a standardised layout. Within the sequence, the links and relationshipsbetween one part and another became significant, a page-by-page process of both arrangement and manipulation;and apart from the occasional minor revision little was added by way of annotation or commentary beyondwhat was already written at the time…