Sophie Hoyle

In the act of cutting the book into solid blocks, the text within is left inaccessible. It has been transformed as a carrier of text into being considered primarily as a physical object. The new components of the book can be re-arranged in any combination, allowing the ‘reader’ to continuously ‘re-edit’ the book in their own way.

As with GMC Cut/Up I, GMC Cut/Up II re-frames the idea of books as sacrosanct and uninterferable, both in text and as object, opening up different approaches to their reading and handling.

This was made in response to a brief for the AND Publishing Piracy Project, 2011.

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