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Catrin Morgan
THIS WEBSITE IS STILL BEING MADE AND MAY 
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Past
  1. Desiring Machines
  2. Nottingham: Sewers
  3. Nottingham: Walks
  4. Nottingham: Messages
  5. The Butterfly Library
  6. A Book
  7. Phantom Settlements
  8. The Age of Wire and String: Initial Images
  9. The Age of Wire and String: Granta Books
  10. The Age of Wire and String: Terms
  11. The Age of Wire and String: The Animal Husband
  12. The Taxonomy of Deception
  13. Numbers Stations
  14. Noise Stations
  15. Russia House
  16. 1042 Bletchley Park Mansions
  17. We worked in huts that were heavily disguised
  18. Nottingham: Shopping Centres
  19. Studies
  20. Cassiopeia
  21. Maypoles, Osses, Green Men
  22. Cakes and Biscuits
  23. Counting Primes
  24. Parasitic Printing
  25. Studies for Studies
  26. A Study
  27. Jerome’s Study
  28. Chickens
  29. Comfort and Hygiene
  30. Mail Projects

Writing

Design

Themes

  1. Boundaries
  2. Dirt
  3. Layers
  4. Connection
  5. Repetition
  6. Authenticity
Mark

Phantom Settlements
(2011)

Riso printed and published by Ditto Press. Written, researched and illustrated in collaboration with Mireille Fauchon. Designed by Julia (Valerio di Lucente, Hugo Timm, Erwan Lhuissier)
Galliard Phantom designed by Valerio di Lucente (Julia)


Phantom Settlements is a collaborative project looking at the work of Ryan Gander, Jamie Shovlin and Tom McCarthy. Along with another illustrator, Mireille Fauchon, I interviewed these artists in 2006 about the role of deception and authenticity in  their work. Rather than simply transcribing the interview, we produced a book in which it is repeated five times. Each of the five chapters is edited differently, written in a different tone of voice and delivered as part of a text whose aesthetic style suggests changing
levels of authenticity. Chapter one is almost entirely fictional; chapter two reverses the language originally used so any reference to fiction becomes a reference to fact; chapter three is written entirely from memory; chapter four contains all of the parts of the conversation that might normally be edited out; and chapter five gives the ‘straightforward’ version of the conversation that might be considered normal publication.

The aim was to create a book in which the illustration and the design provided clues as to the reliability of the text, acting as a commentary on it. I was concerned with the relationship between style and authenticity and the effect that style has on the information delivered.

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