{"id":5297,"title":"Down \u0026 Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton","dimensions":"13.5 x 21.5 cm, 205 p, language: English, publisher: The Do-Not Press Ltd, London, ISBN: 1904316263","date_begin":"2004-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/852","stream_count_app":31,"permalink":"down-out-in-shoreditch-and-hoxton","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Stewart Home","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/681/large/Artistnovel_075.jpg?1342083834","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDown \u0026amp; Out in Shoreditch \u0026amp; Hoxton\u003c/i\u003e is a slice-and-dice splatter novel in which time-travelling streetwalkers hump their way from the trendy east London of today back to the skid row mutilations of the Jack the Ripper era. As gentrification forces the hookers from their age-old beat along Commercial and Wentworth Streets, they don Victorian Widows' weeds and ply their trade in local graveyards. Amid these psychogeographical dislocations, warm blood isn't the only thing that gets sucked by the night creatures who haunt Home's anti-narrative.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist’s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I'm still looking to write bad books as far as literary criticism goes since what I aim to do is go way beyond literature. The novel is a paradigmatically bourgeois cultural form, so a good novel is inherently reactionary –only bad books can be revolutionary. (…) Like all my books, \u003ci\u003eDown \u0026amp; Out in Shoreditch \u0026amp; Hoxton\u003c/i\u003e is about the impossibility of separating form from content within human expression and the ultimate futility of genre distinctions. So the book has been written with the constraint of every paragraph within it being exactly 100 words long. This was a way of forcing myself to write differently and simultaneously of self-consciously signifying to readers how distinctions between poetry and prose don't really work. This book is both poetry and prose.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Stewart Home\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/gasman.htm\"\u003eNovel website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e *Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton* is een slasher-roman waarin tijdreizende straathoeren zich een weg neuken van het trendy Oost-Londen van vandaag terug naar de achterbuurtmishandelingen uit het tijdperk van Jack the Ripper. Omdat gentrificatie de hoertjes verjaagt van hun goede oude buurt aan Commercial en Wentworth Street trekken ze Victoriaanse weduwekleren aan en verhuizen ze hun handeltje naar lokale kerkhoven. Temidden van deze psychogeografische ontwrichtingen drinken de nachtelijke schepselen die rondspoken in Homes anti-verhaal bepaald niet alleen warm bloed. \u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e ''Ik wil nog altijd slechte boeken schrijven naar de normen van de literaire kritiek, want wat ik wil bereiken gaat veel verder dan literatuur. De roman hoort thuis in het paradigma van de bourgeois cultuurvorm, en dus is het inherent aan een goede roman dat die reactionair is – alleen slechte boeken kunnen revolutionair zijn. (…) Net als mijn andere boeken gaat *Down and Out* in Shoreditch and Hoxton over de onmogelijkheid om vorm van inhoud te scheiden binnen de menselijke expressie, en over het ultiem futiele van onderscheid tussen genres. Dus is het boek geschreven met de beperking dat elke alinea exact honderd woorden lang moest zijn. Zo dwong ik mezelf om anders te schrijven en tegelijk toonde het zelfbewust aan lezers hoe het onderscheidt tussen poëzie en proza niet werkt. Dit boek is zowel poëzie als proza.'' - Stewart Home [Novel website](http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/gasman.htm)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1857,"name":"Stewart Home","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}