Giving Yourself Away
Reading Time: 10 minutes
A short story not about an Ikea desk. Inspired in part by the Mersey Wylie song, Giving Myself Away.
First published in NOIT — 5: bodies as in buildings : produced collaboratively by students from the MA Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art, and developed from The Collaborative Project Brief by Emily LaBarge.
© Laura Robertson, 2019. Full text.
Excerpted from the brief: ‘Contribute to a creative journal published by Flat Time House. Comprising new writing and visual contributions, NOIT — 5: BODIES AS IN BUILDINGS explores what happens when the domestic, the home, and the body are alienated from their most basic associations and given new ones.’
ISBN 978-1-910642-42-9, paperback, 324 pages
Published by Flat Time House
Publication Editors: George Lynch and Yin Ying Kong
Editors: Laura Robertson, Vivian Yuan Xiao, Bertie Wnek, James Ireland, Hattie Gibson, Bryony Bodimeade
Copy Editors: Emily LaBarge and Brian Dillon
Project Manager: Harriet Welch
Designed by Emily Schofield
Design Liaison Team: Harriet Welch, Yin Ying Kong, Hattie Gibson, Annie May Demozay, Nina Hanz, Lydia Hounat, Ludovica Colacino, Philippine Hamen
Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH
Images and Illustrations: Mersey Wylie, Giving Myself Away (Official Video), dir. Sam Wiehl, director of photography Marco Franton, costume design by Sam Wiehl and Alena Kundera, filmed at Hinterlands, Liverpool, 2018. Courtesy of Mersey Wylie
Publication image credit: Hannah Archambault
With huge thanks to Sam Wiehl
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