Angharad Williams’ Eraser concludes a two-year writing process and has existed in the form of an exhibition, a performance, and a book. It was co-published by After 8 Books, Paris, and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Eraser is as much about the categorical boundaries of our consensual reality – between self and other, human and non-human, waking and dreaming consciousness – as it is about an urge to overcome them. The book’s main protagonist undergoes multiple transformations via psychic and physical transferences with elementary forces – involving a trout and a magpie, among other things – that unsettle the idea of the ‘stable’ self. It proposes a perspective in which the categorical distinctions between individual self, others, and non-human life slowly begin to dissolve. Other worlds of consciousness – of animals, plants, and organic matter – here embody a form of social organisation free from the hierarchies of tradition and liberal progress.
The book was designed by Dan Solbach. It is set in Berthe (Abyme, 2018) for the text and Rapid (Source Type, 2022) for the cover.
