Emily Beber
MA work
MA work
Shrinking Studies
Remember
that thou art dust
I
shall try to bear it in mind
–Lydia Davis, The
Collected Stories (London: Penguin Books, 2009) p.338
Shrinking Studies is a textual exploration, a voluntary intoxication, set up between a writer-as-narrator and a fictional other, 'O', concerned with the paradoxical process of shrinking as it has appeared throughout history as action, attack, metaphor, subjective sensation and ontological anxiety. It is a body-essay, a theory of shrinking processed through the self and mapped into the space of the email, (the Internet), as an attempt to extend the limits of the body. This is not a memoir, but a fiction, harnessing an experience of relation to reveal a contemporary use of shrinking as a method of control or resistance. Only when we recognise our own destructibility might we disrupt our own thresholds.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA Critical Writing in Art & Design, 2014
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Contact
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I am a London-based writer and artist, whose work addresses shrinking and the limits of the body. I perform as part of the collaborative artist project WE, experimenting with the very extremes of the pop band. I am also the founder of These Lists, an online archive of reading lists from artists, writers and musicians.
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Degrees
- BA (Hons) History of Art, University of York, 2011
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Experience
- Editorial assistant, It's Nice That, London, 2013
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Publications
- 'The Space Between Two Walls', Accent*, Arc 18, 2014; 'Hence Silence and Darkness, Muzzle all Impurity', Ends Meet, 2014, pp.127-134; 'Ark 14: Self-Portrait introduced by Emily Beber', Ark: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine, 1950–1978, Royal College of Art, 2014, 80–1; 'Hoop Dreams', Felt Acts, 2014; 'Drawn', As is the Sea, 2014; 'Old Father Lives Forever', House Guests, Kettles Yard, 2013; Accompanying text for Life in a Peaceful New World: Ruth Angel Edwards, Studio One, London, 2013