Number of columns: 2;
Number of pages: 10;
Number of images: 13;
Number of Captions: 13;
Number of references: 16;
Number of footnotes: 1;
Publication names: Evening Standard, Control Magazine, Instant Publication;
Publishing houses: Book Works, AND Publishing;
Years referred to: 2009, 2005, 1960s, 1985, 1965, 1974, 2011, 2014, 2012, 1997, 2014, 2013, 2008;
Quotations: “West End Final”, “splash”, “A public notice aims to inform or command. A poster aims to seduce, to exhort, to sell, to educate, to convince, to appeal. Whereas a public notice distributes information to interested or alert citizens, a poster reaches out to grab those who might otherwise pass it by. Posters are aggressive because they appear in the context of other posters. […] The form of the poster depends on the gact that many posters exist – competing with (and sometimes reinforcing) each other. Thus posters also presuppose the modern concept of public space – as a theatre of persuasion”, “invites as currency”, “We could almost say viewers are its reason for being, without them it doesn’t exist”, “Massacre”, “In the early days the posters were mainly produced about our own personal experiences as women, about the oppression of housework, childcare and the negative image of women. An idea for a poster would be discussed in the group, a member would work on a design, bring it back for comment, someone else might make changes and so on until the collective was satisfied with the end result; no one individually took the credit. This was a concept many in the art world found hard to accept: ‘who holds the pencil? Someone must hold the pencil!’”, “One Publishes to find Comrades”, “working towards establishing conditions for the co-production of meaning”, “A growing number of artists and artist collectives, challenging the artist’s expert-like authority, have come to advocate co-authorship, broadening responsibility for the creative process to all those taking part;”, “Usership represents a radical challenge to at least three stalwart conceptual institutions in contemporary culture: spectatorship, expert culture, and ownership”, “It is imperative that we publish”… “not only as a means to counter the influence of a hegemonic ‘public’, but also to reclaim the space in which we imagine ourselves and our collectivity.”;
Headlines: ‘Venus crosses the sun’, ‘Rock star splits from young lover’, ‘Man beheaded in street’, ‘Cigarettes, beer, wine, up’, ‘Comic legend dies’, ‘Army: we must go within days’, ‘Brown gives cash to all’, ‘SALMON ALERT FOR SHOPPERS’;
Location names: London, Canada Water, Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, The Showroom, Victoria & Albert Museum, Glasgow, the UK, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Swansea, 58 Alexandra Rd, Womens Karate Club, Camden Institute, Holmes Rd, Kentish Town, N5, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Art Metropole;
Human names: Eva Weinmayr, Pat, Susan Sontag, Stephen Willats, Michael Bierut, David Senior, Suzy Mackie, Pru Stevenson, Jess Baines, Ciara Phillips, Sally, Janet Hunt, Anne Carrick, Andre Bréton, Lynn Harris, Andrea Francke, Shannon Gerard, Stephen Wright, Gareth Branwyn, Matthew Stadler;
Cultures: Russian, Japanese;
Molecules: adrenaline.