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TIM MAUL and CATHERINE MORRIS
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INTIMATE POWER
Autobiography of a City
by CATHERINE MORRIS
(forthcoming, Spring 2025)
Intimate Power: Autobiography of a City is a meditation on forms of personal losses that we carry with us all our lives. It simultaneously serves as a recovery of voice for the kinds of trauma that the city has carried through successive generations, be it slavery, famine, war, asylum, or exile. The book is a series of walks through Liverpool made on a return journey from a feeling of long exile. It is a recovery of voice through which the author situates parts of her own life into a collective solidarity that I sought out in conversations, chance encounters and in the stories that she uncovered in the city's local and international multimedia archives. She walks through versions of herself in Liverpool via twenty-one chapters that she names after revolutions: moments in which transformations occur. Each revolution is separated by an inter-chapter called “Walking” that carries the words of the living and of the dead.
 

Haunting and beautiful. 
—STEPHEN RAE, actor
TIM MAUL is an artist and art writer based in New York City and Connecticut. He is represented by Florence Loewy in Paris and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York. Institutional collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
CATHERINE MORRIS is a writer, academic, and editor. Her monograph Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival (Four Courts Press, 2012) uncovered the forgotten cultural feminist arts practice of one of the founders of modern Ireland. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing & Literature at Liverpool Hope University.
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THE ART OF AFTERMATH
Words and Pictures Exchanged between 07/2020 – 03 /2023
by TIM MAUL and CATHERINE MORRIS
Paperback original, 70 pages, 29 color images, $20
ISBN: 978-0-88214-140-4
Kindle/Apple Books, $9.99
978-0-88214-141-1
In the summer of 2020, the American artist Tim Maul and the Irish author Catherine Morris agreed to develop a writing project around a set of 35 mm slides he had gifted her from his 1994 commission with the National Library of Ireland. The result is an attempt at an image/writing exchange outside of the positivist “creative” busywork that appeared early in the ongoing pandemic.

 
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