Items of Hunger & Precision

Artefact Detail:

*Pamphlet Number Thirteen from The Silent Academy

Items of Hunger & Precision

By Brittany V Wilder

In this artefact Brittany V Wilder notices details as if they are new, and documents them as if they are timeless. She is right to do so. 

She will take you through intimate spaces occupied by ankles, alcohol and thunder. 

You will experience things at the edges of other things. Visit locations like docks and the places where camellias grow. You will learn how to not eat. 

You will hear the name of a dead American president as if a thing like a tunnel can make a man immortal. 

You will learn how to love your own abilities, your own unsteady legs. 

With this odd licence to practice loneliness, you will find magic in the mundane. 

Like all artefacts from The Silent Academy this pamphlet is political in that it recognises no authority but that of the reader.

This pamphlet is spiritual in that it recognises no authority but that of the reader.

This pamphlet is feminist in that it exercises common sense and basic decency.

*a small booklet or leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject. 

• Andrew Shaw 2022