Poetry. READING THE REMOVE OF LITERATURE is a reading of Maurice Blanchot's seminal book The Space of Literature, performed on the page as an annotative writing that encircles the should-be space of print. Through the progressive appropriation and then erasure of Blanchot's text, and through a processual transposition of hand-writing into formal typography, Thurston addresses the very question of the possibility of literature that obsessed Blanchot. The meaning of the candid reflections and meditations which form the incisive marginalia is founded in a tension with the suggestions of the absent text. Floating alone these annotations may have little worth or make little sense, but between these covers they do not deny the history of their derivation: They are constantly anchored by that which is missing, in a creative erring, in a process of over-coming, which in this book asserts an equality of presence between the read and the written; the reading and the writing.
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This book is edited and introduced by Craig Dworkin. Nick Thurston is an artist living and working in Leeds. After collaborating on text-based artworks, this new publication is Nick's first solo bookwork. Nick has annotated and then appropriated a copy of Maurice Blanchot's seminal book, "The Space of Literature". He has erased all of Blanchot's words and re-set his own marginalia (at once poetic and philosophical) in the fonts and face of Blanchot's edition, presenting a reading and the very possibility of reading: it litters the page and continues beyond the edges, forming as it does a piece of conceptual literature as an artist's book, whose meanings are kept open by a tension with that which is removed and yet ever-present.
Nick Thurston is based in West Yorkshire, England. He is author of Reading the Remove of Literature (2006) and Historia Abscondita (An Index of Joy), (2007). Since 2006, he has been Co-Editor of the independent artists' book imprint information as material. His Conceptualist reading performances form the crux of Nick's poetic and editorial work, which also underpins his approach to pedagogy at Sheffield Hallam University.
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