Philip Speakman

Dear Visitors

 

Firstly thanks a lot for coming, I really appreciate your being here. What precedes is a collation of objects and research stemming from a story I was told last year.

 

In the summer of 2017 I found myself engaged in a series of online conversations __ _____ with someone going by the name of Ellery Cordwainer* who claimed to been part of a cult of SF writers in _______

_______________ create a mythic image of the future, a fiction capable of derailing what they saw as the _________________________ at the heart of _________ _______ capitalism, providing an alternative to the ‘there is no alternative’ doctrine of neoliberalism through the creation of hyperstitions; fictions which make themselves real. _______________________________ collective writers block ________________________________________

 _____________________________________________________.              ____________ endeared towards the narratives and tales of the landscape and communities surrounding them, _____________

________________________________ informing their behaviour and interactions, latching onto and ensnaring their realities. _________________________________________________

__________________ 

 

The exhibition is a presentation and examinationº of this story done with the hope that something interesting might unfold. Much of the material is still unprocessed/unfixed in some regard and so I’m sorry if this means it requires more work.

 

Best wishes,

 

Phil

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* I think this is clearly a fake name; Ellery/allegory (poor joke?), and Cordwainer was a pseudonym used by SF writer Harlan Ellison when he felt his fictions had been managed and distorted beyond repair when handed onto to someone else, typically Hollywood producers. 

 

º Cordwainer claimed his account might not be entirely accurate but was none the less true. I’m happy to go with that.