Monograph: Tim Brennan

Price £8.99+pp
ISBN 0953676544
Year 1999
Edition 500
Pages 115
Binding Perfect bound cB+W cover; text + illustration inside

Over the years, I’ve worked across various media—video, photography, performance, and installation—but more recently, I’ve focused on what I call walk-works. These pieces explore time, space, historiography, and the everyday—how art interacts with the political and the fleeting.

This publication emerged from an Arts Council initiative to help archive time-based and performance practices. It includes a major essay by Janet Hand (formerly Goldsmiths College), who explores my role as a ‘guide’ through what she terms affirmative critique. In response, I’ve punctuated her essay with photographs—some taken from previous walk-works, and others made in collaboration with Paul Maven specifically for this book.

It’s both a reflection and a document—part archive, part new work.

 

 

Enchiridion 

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ISBN 978-1-907468-11-7
Year 2011
Edition 500
Pages 88
Binding Perfect bound colour cover; text + illustration inside

This pocket travel companion is the 4th in a series I began in the late 1990s, where I explore the guidebook and guided tour as artistic forms. Enchiridion is both a performance score and a critical itinerary—something you can read, walk, and perform. It takes you on a three-part journey through North East Scotland: by train from Aberdeen to Huntly, a walk through Battle Hill Woods, and the return journey.

Along the way, I offer instructions, directions, and selected quotations to guide your experience and prompt reflection on how place is shaped—by nature, rebellion, ecology, and empire. This is also the first of my guides to trace a site in flux, specifically Battle Hill between 2009–2012.

Since 1989, I’ve developed what I call the manoeuvre—an aesthetic method that weaves travel, recitation, and conversation into a form of discursive performance. These books are part artist’s book, part itinerary, part political reflection. This edition also includes an introduction by Donald Boyd of the Huntly Development Trust and a critical essay by Alex Lockwood.

 

 

 

Corridors 

Price £8.99+pp
ISBN 978-1-907468-43-8
Year 2024
Edition 500
Pages 76
Binding Perfect bound colour cover; text + illustration inside

This pocket travel companion is the latest in the manoeuvre series I began in the late 1990s, where I explore the guidebook and guided tour as artistic forms. Corridors is both a performance score and a critical itinerary—something you can read, walk, and perform. It consists of 3 journeys through Manchester city centre.

Along the way, I offer instructions, directions, and selected quotations to guide your experience and prompt reflection on how place is shaped—by Culture, Knowledge, and Sustainability. This is also the first of my guides to trace a site in flux, specifically Battle Hill between 2009–2012.

Since 1989, I’ve developed what I call the manoeuvre—an aesthetic method that weaves travel, recitation, and conversation into a form of discursive performance. These books are part artist’s book, part itinerary, part political reflection. This edition also includes an essay by myself charting the history of the manoeuvre and a full chronology of all manoeuvres up to 2024.