Bricks from the Kiln is an irregular journal edited by Andrew Lister and Matthew Stuart, sometimes with guest editors, that presents graphic design and typography as disciplines activated by and through other disciplines and lenses such as language, archives, collage, and more. It borrows its title from the glossary notes of Ret Marut’s “Der Ziegelbrenner,” which was the ‘size, shape and colour of a brick’, and ran for 13 issues between 1917 and 1921. Issue 4: Featuring contributions from Helen Marten, Sophie Collins, Don Lee Choi, Kate Briggs, Phil Baber, Joyce Dizon, Florian Roithmayr, Jen Calleja, J.R. Carpenter, Edgar Wind, Natalie Ferris, Byrony Quinn, Rebecca Collins, Naomi Pearce, Karen Di Franco, James Bulley, Saki Mafundikwa, Natalie Ferris, Matthew Stuart, James Langdon, Peter Nencini, Sophia Seita, Caroline Bergvall, Seb McLauchlan, and Maria Fusco. Issue 5: Contributions by Louis Lüthi, Helen Marten, Rebecca May Johnson, Johanna Drucker, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Ursula K. Le Guin, Quinn Latimer, Stefan Themerson, Slavs and Tatars, Ashanti Harris, Catalina Barroso-Luque, Kevin Lotery, Bronac Ferran w. Greg Thomas, Astrid Seme w. Alex Balgiu Issue 6: This instalment of Bricks from the Kiln doubles as issue #6 of the journal and as an exhibition catalogue for the thematic show ‘BFTK#6: Tentative — Incomplete — Inconsistent: A Catalogue of the Disappeared, Destroyed, Lost or Otherwise Inaccessible’. Presenting objects, artworks, artefacts, models, events and animals that no-longer — or never did — exist in physical form, the exhibition explores themes of death, destruction and reincarnation, examining persisting interests in notions of ephemerality and permanence, memory and record, preservation and erasure, creation and reconstruction. How do we remember and memorialise? How is space given to the unrecorded? How do we experience the out of reach, concealed, unseen, undiscovered? How can the dematerialised be materialised again, through the mediation of writing, image and sound? Contributions from: Helen Marten, Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh-Lister, Rachael Allen, Emily LaBarge, Lucy Mercer, Crystal Bennes, Will Harris, Matthew Stuart, Ali Na & Mindy Seu, Rose Higham-Stainton, Jennifer Hodgson, Paul Purgas, Sarah Hayden, Juliet Jacques, Ellef Prestsæter, Gilbert Again, David Hering Softcover, 170 × 224.764mm, ~200 pages + insert, edition of 1000, London, Chicago & Edinburgh.
