June | 2024 | Sampson Low

Robin Vaughan-Williams and Stéphanie Barbetta met at RuptureXIBIT’s Lawless Imagination exhibition in Hampton Wick (London) in December 2023. Their artistic and personal experiences brought them together around the theme of repair. In this collaboration, Robin’s words collide with Stéphanie’s images, throwing up alternative and layered readings that take us on a submarine route through subjectivity and the human condition. How do you make two universes resonate? How can a text meet an image, overlap, merge or simply breathe differently within a visual composition?

How to Fix a Human
Robin Vaughan-Williams & Stéphanie Barbetta
Published May 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-36-1
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 50
SLB0249
Price – £2.60
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Robin Vaughan-Williams is a poet, producer, and author of The Manager (Happenstance Press). He has run live literature events like Spoken Word Antics in Sheffield and Word of Mouth in Nottingham, and pioneered collaborative poetry improvisation. ‘How to Fix a Human’ is the first in a sequence of poems
exploring the human as variously mechanical, commodified, split, and out of sync with itself.
Find out more @robinrvw on Instagram or www.zeroquality.ne

Stéphanie Barbetta is an Italian-Swiss multidisciplinary artist. After a master’s degree in literature and post-graduate studies in theatre, she developed a practice that combines images, writing and performance. Laureate of the PEG in 2020 for her text Exploser d’amour, she mainly writes poems.
Her visual research is exhibited and published internationally (www.substancebrute.com/). Her first solo exhibition was held in Geneva at the Manoir de Cologny in 2023. A monograph on her project Empty Home will be published in May 2024.

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Proceedings of the Remediators
Jane Partner, Sarah Messerschmidt, Sylee Gore, and Simon Tyrrell
Published February 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-35-4
A6 Size
32 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 49
SLB0248
Price – £3.99
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Prefatory Remarks on the First Proceedings of the Remediators

The convivial library is also a commons. We welcome you. The architecture of a library serves as the organising principle of this volume, arranged around four books that are linked by areas for circulation, exchange and conversation. Libraries are spaces that contain an enormous variety of texts and images, which are activated and re-combined by those who use them. Opening each of the following sections invites you to participate in a transfer of energy. As visual artists, we ask how to inhabit the language world, and so our offerings are deviant, playful, and unexpected; expressive, fluid and tender. As writers, we ask how to and new ways of looking at words as visual objects. Perhaps we reclaim ‘realia’ – those naturally occurring or human-made ‘real world objects’ failing to fit traditional categories of library material. Non-documentary items not rejected for being not manuscripts or not immediately useful for understanding them. Although contained here on the page, our writings speak to the tendencies of the human body: words exist as light in the eye, as electricity in the brain; words are breath and music, and they emanate from the same vital impulse that produces gesture, dance and movement.