Features
Purple Prose 5, Winter 1994
Purple Prose 5, Winter 1994
Purple Institute
19 x 24,5 cm
Magazine
Softcover, staple-bound
Shugi Aryioshi, Olivier Badot, Olivier Blanckart, Greg Bordowitz, Tommaso Corvi Mora, Andrew Cross, Liz Dalton, Joshua Decter, André Durandeau, Atom Egoyan, Danielle Flaumenbaum, Peter Fleissig, Valentine de Ganay, Ami Garmon, John S. Hall, Markus Hansen, Carsten Höller, Stephen Joannon, Ginette Le Maitre, Claude Lévéque, Loïs E. Nesbitt, Guillaume Nez, Bob Nickas, POST SEXE, David Robbins, François Roche, Alberto Sorbelli, Therapy?, Wolfgang Tillmans, Francisco J. Varela, Vydia, Benjamin Weil
They Look Of Reading,
We Look From Lacking
Pensive yet unaware, they are not here, but elsewhere; or so it seems. Disrupted but unoffended, they pause from absorption. — by Colby Vexler & Justin Clement
Experimental archives,
new fashion histories
The concept of the ‘archive’ seems to have captured once more the contemporary moment in fashion. — by Laura Gardner
From top to bottom
A header on a page is worn like a hat on the head. It is there as a part of a uniform that can indicate the wearers job, the books title and the stage of development in the narrative. — by Emma Singleton
Her hand nuzzled
into his pocket
How the novel frees the garment of/from? fashion — by Femke de Vries
Keeping your heart in
a fabric padded pouch
Why do we wear our hearts on our sleeves? Why do we pad out our love as though its bound to hurt? Why does a heartbeat reverberate through the fabric of the skin? — by Emma Singleton