PDF Editions

Ritual-Digital-Artefacts are not just texts — they are infrastructures for relation, disruption, and attunement. Downloadable essays, experimental prose, critical and theoretical texts. These digital releases are cross-field entities— often autoethnographic, performative, and durational. Offered as works-in-time, not static products.

Treatise I: Field Notes for a Feral Praxis
A Ritual-Digital-Artefact by Tim Brennan
PDF | 1st Edition | Free/Pay-What-You-Feel

 

This is not a retrospective. It’s a recalibration.

Emerging from over three decades of cross-field practice, Treatise I is the first in a series of downloadable field-texts articulating a feral, fugitive, and polyvalent approach to making and thinking. Rooted in manoeuvre, ritual-publishing, and situated poetics, the work is a hybrid between essay, score, and interface.

Issued through timbrennanartist.co.uk as part of a distributed publishing practice, this PDF is not a representation of the work — it is the work. Open it, link through it, carry it.

 

🖋 "The infrastructure is the work."

 

 

 

 

Speech at the Grave Side of Karl Marx / Speech at the Birth of the Daughter
A one-page text-poem by Tim Brennan

 

Written on March 17th, 2018 — 135 years to the day after Engels delivered his eulogy for Marx — this poetic text stages a double-voiced ritual: one marking the death of a thinker, the other heralding the birth of a daughter. In a single, uninterrupted flow, it folds together political inheritance, biological arrival, and the echo of historical voice.

This work operates in the space between invocation and incantation — neither memorial nor manifesto, but something that borrows from both. There is no image, no cover: the work is what it is — a trace, a speech-act, a page.

 

Details:
– Digital download (PDF)
– 1 page

Price £3.00

 

 

 

Inoperative Communities: Art Beyond the Individual
A Ritual-Digital-Artefact by Tim Brennan

 

This PDF edition reflects on collaboration as method, ethic, and form. Spanning decades of performative, poetic, and situated practice, it explores the notion of inoperative community as a lived infrastructure.

Drawing from artistic partnerships, trans-oceanic exchanges, and experimental publishing networks, the text moves between essay, score, and field note. It attends to the spaces between authors — how shared work resists closure and foregrounds attention, care, and contingency.

Part reflection, part proposition, it invites the reader into a collective unfolding. The infrastructure is the work.

 

Details:
– Digital download (PDF)

– 2025
– 18 pages

Price £3.00