the mutant grammar of refusal

2024-2025

A multimedia art collaboration series born of language, sound, ink, and paper. There will be no answer.

Scope: design, printing, binding, music generation

advert + manifesto

allelopathy

volume 3

song for argus

volume 2

the work of the second hand

volume 1

dial-a-poem wildposting

A collaboration between Robert Rutherford and Jacob McMurray, drawing on poems/song lyrics created for their former band Slow Clocks and art/music/design in conversation with the writings. The Mutant Grammar of Refusal presents a single poem in each of ten volumes with accompanying artwork and marginalia. This initial project scope has expanded to incorporate music, field recordings, and has recently infected the telephone system. Ask and ask and ask.

Poetry volumes available here. Telephony labyrinth at 206.649-8767.

in argument with sculptors

volume 4