"When I came across a copy some time ago it struck me that somewhere at its core was a mission – a need - to control the World through language, to establish the true names of the demons that trouble us in order to exorcise them. With every revision it seemed that there were a few demons who needed to be reclassified and perhaps rehabilitated or at least accommodated. Others swapped roles and responsibilities in a series of infernal reshuffles."
A new publication from the Wild Pansy Press - DSM 4-and-a-half a visual essay on the ways we represent mental disorders. The book includes a short text and a series of drawings working over pages from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV first published in 1994.
ISBN: 978-1-900687-89-8
52 colour pages spiral bound. 190 x 190 mm.
Edition of 100.
£20.00 + p&p (UK Tracked 48/non-UK International Tracked)
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The Wild Pansy Press has opened a new project space - The Writers' Room - in London N1, hosted by the Florence Trust.
The Wild Pansy Press Writers’ Room will be a site for intense full- or part-time residential periods at the intersection of fine art and literature - be that of art writing, memoir, auto-fiction, science fiction, fan-fiction, zine culture, sound art, broadcasting or the spoken word.
The space will be available as a working studio, but can also be reimagined for outcomes such as exhibitions, publication launches, performances, screenings or symposia. The Writers’ Room is a working space with scope for intimate or public-facing engagements. We imagine it fostering connectivity across demographics and practices.
The Writers’ Room offer practitioners working with text, image, voice and recording a place to find respite and a space to develop projects; a place to create something new, imagining and transforming through the power of language.
We are programmed until the end of November but we would still be interested to hear from artists and writers who would be interested in spending a productive period of time using the Writers’ Room as a creative base for periods of between 2 to 5 weeks (continuously or spread over a longer period, working towards the production of an appropriate body of work in any medium.
If you are interested, please download our Information Pack here.
For further information, email: info@wildpansypress.com
There is public access to the grounds of the building Wednesday - Saturday, 11 - 6pm & by appointment (with a bell on the West gate of the building). The Writers’ Room will be open for events and by arrangement with resident artists
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Tracery – Venice and the Lakes Interlaced
by Déirdre Kelly
For press release click Here
28 pages full colour, soft cover
Published by the Wild Pansy Press, University of Leeds in association with Brantwood Trust, April 2023
Foreword by Howard Hull, director Brantwood House
Presentation texts by Dr. Chiara Squarcina, Venice Civic Museums Foundation, Michelle Lovric, Novelist.
Essays by Gianluca Solla, University of Verona and Christopher Taylor, University of Leeds.
ISBN: 978-1-900687-88-1
Edited by Chris Taylor
Printed by Marigraf, Italy
Project Design: Nadia Ragazzo
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