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The Silent Academy recently shook hands with Philip Newcombe of meantime press. • Sharing a mutual approach to the disruption of habitual thinking it was agreed that meantime press will operate as an imprint of The Silent Academy. • Last year meantime press released the work of reclusive poet Stanley White. His handmade collection is called ‘whale noise and sleeping pills’ and it is now available to order from The Silent Academy online store. • The Silent Academy takes no financial cut from the sale of Stanley’s work. He is paid in units of twenty-one pound coins, which are dispatched in canvas purses. Stanley can then sustain his quiet habits and continue writing his beautiful things. • “whale noise and sleeping pills” is a very limited edition run. Delivery may be relatively slow, but you may want to hurry in making an order. • #thesilentacademy #meantimepress #limitededition #indiepress #poetry #conceptualart #21 #thenumber21 #moneybags @philipnewcombe @meantime_press https://www.instagram.com/p/CO-gMJelxMd/?igshid=zh1i2r40tjp0

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The Silent Academy has been quiet, working on things. • However, with the arrival of new year we’re happy to announce a number of new projects involving a number of writers and artists from around the world. • The first project we’d like to mention is our imprint, ‘meantime’ - an annual edition. • ‘meantime 001’ will include work from artists: Steve Giasson James Gillham Colin Guillemet Royce Allen Hobbs Matt Hulse Christin Kaiser Stefan Klein Mark Langley Philip Newcombe Paloma Sanchez-Palencia & Lena Skrabs Andrew Shaw Penny Slinger Ignacio Uriarte Steve Van den Bosche Freek Wambacq Brittany Wilder ‘Meantime 001’ will be released in the near future. #meantimepress #journal #conceptualartists #happynewyear2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CYI_k_VoHrQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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‘over and over’ is Part 3 of a piece called ‘Three’ which also includes ‘on and on’ and ‘again and again’. • In keeping with our working relationship with Stanley White, the Silent Academy imprint, meantime press uses an Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter to type-up his work which he sends to us in the post. • For ’Three’, Stanley issued a simple instruction:  • “Type the individual letters of these words on top of each other in the centre of a piece of paper for as long as you feel is right. Then stop”.  • These works are sold as individual pieces at £21 but can only be purchased together by one person, as an Edition of 1, for £63. • The Silent Academy and meantime take no profit from the work of Stanley White. • • • #stanleywhite #thesilentacademy #meantimepress #artbook #silentacademy #conceptualism #textart #independentpress https://www.instagram.com/p/CSJSio2DOD3/?utm_medium=tumblr

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‘again and again’ is Part 2 of a piece called ‘Three’ which also includes ‘again and again’ and ‘over and over’. • In keeping with our working relationship with Stanley White, the Silent Academy imprint, meantime press uses an Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter to type-up his work which he sends to us in the post. • For ’Three’, Stanley issued a simple instruction:  • “Type the individual letters of these words on top of each other in the centre of a piece of paper for as long as you feel is right. Then stop”.  • These works are sold as individual pieces at £21 but can only be purchased together by one person, as an Edition of 1, for £63. • The Silent Academy and meantime take no profit from the work of Stanley White. • #meantimepress #thesilentacademy #textart #silentacademy #conceptualism #stanleywhite #againandagain #onandone #typewriter #artbook #nice https://www.instagram.com/p/CSGlbI5jZez/?utm_medium=tumblr

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turn all objects to sleep - Stanley White • Excerpt from ‘whale noise and sleeping pills’ • • • #thesilentacademy #silentacademy #stanleywhite #meantimepress #thenumber21 #limitededition #handmadebooks #indiepress #artbook Photograph by @philipnewcombe https://www.instagram.com/p/CPZ7BDEFTdf/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Stanley White - whale noise and sleeping pills. • An unbound, handmade book of 19 pages. Measure - 21cm x 21cm. Limited Edition. • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: We met Stanley in Cornwall. He came in the pub, around midday. We watched as he dropped off a piece of paper on a table and walked out. I went over to have a look and it was blank apart from the words ‘light rain’ had been hand written in the centre. • I saw him again a while later and asked him what he was doing. We sat around and drank and he pulled out these text pieces from his bag. As time has gone on we’ve slowly built up a friendship and he agreed to do a short run publication with us, where we will type up his work. • He has no social media presence and has a phone that just makes phone calls. Our correspondence is slow and deliberate, through letters. - Philip Newcombe. • • • #thesilentacademy #silentacademy #handmadebook #limitededition #meantimepress #minimalism #conceptualism #thenumber21 #whalenoiseandsleepingpills @meantime_press https://www.instagram.com/p/CPXtQbDFUY2/?utm_medium=tumblr