The artists group We Are Publication (WAP) embraces an open and unbound notion of what it means to publish. Collage, cut-up and fragmentation are WAP’s central modes of operation which allow the group to explore multi-form, poly-vocal and durational publications comprising sound, video, posters, sculptural forms, carpets, immersive media, broadcast, performance and printed matter. As such, WAP’s activities form assemblages of encounters and materials that test out and expand what it means to make public.
Since its inception in 2015, We Are Publication has produced a range of speculative works, including a radio broadcast and vinyl record Diagram of an Hour (Resonance FM, London, Curved Pressing); a handmade rug Notes on a Carpet (Five Years, London, Focal Point Gallery’s Unit Twenty-One, Southend-on-Sea, Whitechapel Gallery); the exhibition and soundscape We.Are.Cut.Up. (Pratt Institute, New York, Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow); t h e H O L D at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston; and Placement does not explain, but cultivates a September Garden for Camden Arts Centre’s Public Knowledge programme.’
