Bricks from the Kiln is an irregular journal edited by Andrew Lister and Matthew Stuart, occasionally with guest editors, that presents graphic design and typography as disciplines activated by and through other disciplines and lenses such as language, archives, collage, and more. It borrows its title from the glossary notes of Ret Marut’s anarchist magazine Der Ziegelbrenner which was the "size, shape and colour of a brick" and ran for 13 issues between 1917 and 1921.

This installment of Bricks from the Kiln doubles as issue #6 of the journal and as an exhibition catalogue for the thematic show "BFTK#6: Tentative — Incomplete — Inconsistent: A Catalogue of the Disappeared, Destroyed, Lost or Otherwise Inaccessible." Presenting objects, artworks, artifacts, models, events and animals that no-longer — or never did — exist in physical form, the exhibition explores themes of death, destruction and reincarnation, examining persisting interests in notions of ephemerality and permanence, memory and record, preservation and erasure, creation and reconstruction. How do we remember and memorialize? How is space given to the unrecorded? How do we experience the out of reach, concealed, unseen, undiscovered? How can the de-materialized be materialized again, through the mediation of writing, image and sound?

Contents for BFTK #6:

ANYTHING BUT BEGIN
Louis Lüthi

SNOW AND BLOOD: A DIPTYCH PICTURESQUE
Helen Marten

THE RECIPE FOR BLUE WAS RED / SPATTERING, SHADOW TEXTS,THE APPLICATION OF INTERNAL CONTRADICTION
Rebecca May Johnson

NETWORKS ARE NOT DIAGRAMS: AETHERIC THEORIES AND SOCIAL PHYSICS
Johanna Drucker

I LOSE MY HEAD
Daisy Lafarge

THE BIG ROAR
Holly Pester

OFF THE PAGE: LOUD COWS A TALK AND A POEM ABOUT READING ALOUD
Ursula K. Le Guin

SIGNS, SOUNDS, METALS, FIRES, OR AN ECONOMY OF HER READER
Quinn Latimer

SKETCHES FROM A POLITE HELL
Stefan Themerson

TRANSLITERATIVE TEASE
Slavs and Tatars

A SÉANCE: A CALL AND RESPONSE
Ashanti Harris

XAXALPA
Catalina Barroso-Luque

LEFT TO HIS OWN DEVICES: RICHARD HAMILTON, INTROSPECTRE
Kevin Lotery

AJAR AJAR A JAR: [OPENING THE CONCRETE]
Bronac Ferran w. Greg Thomas

BARONESS ELSA’S EM DASHES
Astrid Seme w. Alex Balgiu

Edited by Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh‐Lister

Published by BFTK, 2023
Printed in a limited edition of 800 copies

Softcover, 164 pages with bookmark inserts, b&w with full color cover, 6.75 × 8.90 inches

ISBN: 978‐0‐9956835‐6‐3