Loose Lips
July 2008
Loose Lips Build Ships
Thoughts on Democracy
The Wolfsonian, a museum based in Miami, approached Experiment Jetset to participate in 'Thought on Democracy', a poster exhibition revolving around a series of paintings that Rockwell created in 1943, based on Roosevelt's 'Four Freedoms' speech from 1941. (The freedoms addressed in that speech were 'freedom of speech', 'freedom of religion', 'freedom from want', and 'freedom from fear').
Everything That Exists
September 2007
Print Run
Charity no. 1046584
No Poetry To Recite
text is from, according to the Experiment Jetset website: 'Stefan Themerson en de Taal' (Stefan Themerson on Language). In one of the scenes, the Polish-born writer, film maker, publisher and poet Stefan Themerson (1910-1988) is shown reciting a paragraph from his novel 'Bayamus and the Theatre of Semantic Poetry' (1949):
"My lord archbishop; your excellencies, your graces; my lords, ladies and gentlemen, men and women, children; embryos, if any; spermatozoa reclining at the edge of your chairs; all living cells; bacteria; viruses; molecules of air, and dust, and water... I feel much honoured in being asked to address you all, and to recite poetry – but I have no poetry to recite."
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