The inventory of the streets is inexhaustible - Walter Benjamin
Smash This Puny Existence is a new publication from the collective Inventory that exists as a series of large format double-sided sheets that can be read, reconfigured and displayed in any number of ways. Smash This Puny Existence emerged from a street action staged by Inventory in London's Hanway Street in March. Overnight Inventory fly posted a series of newly-commissioned texts and images along with 'found' material throughout the street, in turn redesignating this popular thoroughfare as a public 'newspaper'. The street became a discursive, polemical space, a place for the exchange of ideas and information. Smash This Puny Existence considers ideas of mapping and navigation and the daily ebb and flow of the urban environment. It is a significant contribution to Inventory's ongoing determination of a 'fierce sociology'.
Smash This Puny Existence is printed offset in an edition of 1,500 copies. It consists of 6 large format sheets rolled and housed in a protective tube.
Designed by Secondary Modern, photography by Hugo Glendinning.
ISBN 1 870699 39 4
Price £4.95
