By Stuart Bailey

Dot Dot Dot was a bi-annual independent art and design publication that began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content gradually widened to cover art, music, language, politics, film, and literature. Ultimately, Dot Dot Dot sought to cover design in the widest possible sense. 

Issue 17 aimed to steer clear of both commercial commercial portfolio presentations and impenetrable academic theory, instead offering intelligent, passionate, and clever writing on the tangled web of influences that determine the shape of contemporary cultural production.

Contributions come from Richard Hollis, James Goggin, Mike Sperlinger, Dan Fox, Jennifer Higgie, Johnny Vivash, Dexter Sinister, Janice Kerbel, and Radim Peško, and were initially (read) (spoken) (delivered) at the Embankment Galleries in London, a few months before being (transcribed) (translated) (transfixed) at the close of a related exhibition.

The performed contributions were deliberately planned to "traverse the axis between total improvisation and total scripting, were more or less about the differences between spoken and written language, and effectively set[ting] up the productive problems of how to represent such a diverse 3D event in uniform 2D print..." 

Published by Dot Dot Dot, 2008

Softcover, 104 pages, b&w, 6.5 × 9.25 inches

ISBN: 978-0-97-946542-0