Author: Jas Plac
Issue #57, S P C | Phnom Penh, ‘Saturday’
The science fiction series, ‘Uncertainty’, by A. Spaice continues this week with S P C | Phnom Penh, ‘Saturday,’ a fresh zine with a surprisingly light-on-the-eye set of vector images. They’re made by Dipika Kohli.
‘…’
‘Can we play monopoly?’
‘Not right now.’
‘…’
‘I have to fix a typo, right on the front page.’
‘…’
‘It said science nonfiction, which, you know. It can’t be. Either it’s science fiction, which it is, or it’s nonfiction.’
‘Science nonfiction, well. That would be like, if you go to the moon, and there are aliens waiting for you.’
‘…’
Science fictions
Discovering how to write in a different way (third-person) is part of DK’s new directions for 2020. We’re talking about it a lot in different places, but lightly, quietly and in just a very small inner circle. I can’t share where it’s going yet but I can tell you how it began. A writer’s workshop in southwest Ireland. Impersonating the instructor, kind of on a whim, in a surprising, unexpected move that we now understand is the hallmark of everything DK. Short. Sweet. And a little bit… wacky.
‘Wacky? What is this word?’ (This was at a new bar, about to change its name, in Aarhus, circa 2015).
‘Wacky? Well…’
*googles*
‘See? What I meant was–‘
‘–WACKY. That’s it!! That’s the name for our new bar!!!’
‘Um, well, it’s not exactly–‘
‘WACKY !!!!’
‘…’
‘Wacky.’
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I think, one who might be watching for a while the progressions of DK’s creative work, which has not been shared here much but is coming through loud and clear in this week’s zine, might simply recognize ‘Saturday’ as a natural step in the movement towards something tighter, clearer and of its own ilk.
Which, of course, we think is the point of making all this time, to see what might emerge. It’s a long story. [Deleted].
‘Just another thing in the evolution of D,’ as KE had once put it. Stars. Fractals. Chaos… those were their conversation topics, along with terrible jokes that no one else would laugh at besides KE and DK.
Catch a glimmer of a hint of what’s to come with S P C this year when you get this week’s issue.
S P C | Phnom Penh, ‘Saturday.’
;)
Here’s a link.
Issue #54, S P A C E | Skåne, ‘E. K. Vera’
For S P A C E this week, we feature a lead story called, ‘Run, Eliza.’ It was written by A. Spaice. In this issue, we illustrate it with fresh, new graphic art updates that mix from our archived images; both the original photographs and the graphic updates are by DK’ creative director, Dipika Kohli.
It’s part of a series, ‘Uncertainty.’ It’s available for members of S P A C E, only.
So far, three issues have been published in our zine series on ‘Uncertainty’. They are:
- S P C | London, ‘A Walk in Regent’s Park’
- S P C | Copenhagen, ‘Nearness’
- And this week’s.
Science fiction. Says DK: ‘This series is turning into quite a jaunt into the perpendicular spaces that veer upwards against asymptotes, impossibly, and if you like the way this sentence is going, then you will like this week’s S P C.
‘Relational art and unexpected writing, combining now, in a fresh collection. Super nerdy. Which. Is. The. Fun part.’
Download your copy, and at the same time set up your weekly subscription, here.
Order S P A C E | Skåne, ‘E. K. Vera’
‘Logic… is the most dangerous of vices’
Logic in all its infinite potential is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his [or her] action and rest comfortably in the assurance that what he [or she] did abides by reasoning. That is why, for us brittle beings, intention is the only true weapon of peace.
—Ilyas Kassam, author of Reminiscence of the Present
Photo: DK / ‘Good Morning,’ Dalat Vietnam 2019