The Grid
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Reading time: 8 minutes
A short story that pays careful attention to Larry Achiampong & David Blandy’s 2019 exhibition, The Grid, at Copperfield Gallery, London.
First published in Attention: an anthology of student writing developed from a Royal College of Art MA Writing workshop on attention, scale, duration, and endurance delivered by Brian Dillon.
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© Laura Robertson, 2019. Full text
Attention was produced collaboratively by students from the MA Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art
ISBN: 978-1-910642-45-0, paperback, 95 pages
Published by: RCA
Publication Editors: Yin Ying Kong, Rose Higham-Stainton, Bryony Bodimeade
Editors: Laura Robertson, Judith Hagan, Nina Hanz
Copy Editors: George Lynch, Esme Boggis, Fiona Glen
Design Liaison: George Leith
Designed by: Alec McWilliam
Printed by: Tallinn Book Printers
Image credits: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy: The Grid, installation view at Copperfield, London. Photo: Eva Herzog. Images courtesy of the artists and Copperfield, London
Publication photography: Ludovica Colacino
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