Smittens For Smoticons, A Novella by Michael Dean


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Smittens For Smoticons

Michael Dean

Edited by L. E. Price


Publ. Goswell Road, 2022

Softcover (11 cm x 18 cm)

95 Pages

100 copies

Language : English only


Price: 20 €


"A smoticon, short for “smote icon”, also known simply as a smote, is a physical representation of a smite, smitten characters - usually punctuation scars, numbers and letters - to express having cared." Extract from 'Smittens For Smoticons', A Novella by Michael Dean, Published by Goswell Road, 2022

Goswell Road is proud to publish 'Smittens For Smoticons', by Michael Dean. The publication, Dean's first novella, is available in a limited edition of 100 copies. 


Preface by Anthony Stephinson, co-founder of Goswell Road.


Artist bio:

Michael Dean (b. 1977, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom) is an artist living in East London. Dean grew up in a sub-proletarian community in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, notoriously attending the ‘Worst school in the United Kingdom' (Crace, 1999). Dean’s work begins with his own writing, abstracting text into sculpture and immersive installations including transient publications that explore the body, intimacy and language. Dean has said, “I use my enemies dictionary”. A reference to the artist's mother tongue, a working-class dialect of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, called ‘Geordie’, and the common experience of being forced to operate in the mother tongue of the middle and upper class, sometimes referred to as ‘Queen’s English’. A so-called ‘standard English’, closed to communities of poverty and or marginalisation.


Both the publication and exhibition are part of 'Tendre-Sur-Estime' initiated by curator Julie Boukobza.

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