This is the first section of a collaborative project by Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell. These works are a response to writings by HD, Emmy Hennings, Gertrude Stein, Valerie Solanas and Mary Wollstonecraft.
HD's notes on thought and vision takes the jellyfish as an erotic symbol of creative force, printed on bible paper to evoke 'flimsy' typewriter paper and the translucency of the visceral qualities HD refers to in her text.
Emmy Hennings' Dada performance writing and puppetry is to be reworked into a collograph, collaged, text piece. Referencing a German text and a first edition with red wool flannelette cover and tipped in label.
Our response to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons is a transcription from words to buttons; with colour and shape as equivalents for speech/sound and dynamic non/sense of the original words.
Taking Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto we consider the form of manifesto as a literary work, visually mirroring Solanas’ contempt for men and capitalism (in place of Marinettis "scorn for women").
Revisiting Mary Wollstonecraft’s Hints, Lessons, and Vindication of the Rights of Women, we consider how these writings draw on the thoughts and experiences of a woman as teacher, mother, lover, and philosopher, writing across disciplinary boundaries.