Past Event

Launch of redactor by Eddie Paterson

1st Feb 2017

Presenter: Whitmore Press
Website: https://whitmorepress.com
Event Duration: 90 minutes

redactor uses found texts from the everyday – emails, memos, notes, lyrics, text messages, tweets, webfeeds – as poetic material.

Drawing on techniques from the visual arts and radical writing such as the ready-made, the cut-up and the concrete poem, Eddie Paterson reflects upon the ways in which the historical legacy of censorship intersects with contemporary surveillance technologies.

In an era in which former US President George W. Bush’s favourite writing tool was the black Sharpie marker, redactor is a language trash-compactor where the banal and the brilliant meet.

Published by Whitmore Press and launched by Amy Brown