Emma Kay | Macbeth from the series ''Shakespeare from Memory''

Emma Kay 

Macbeth from the series ''Shakespeare from Memory''

Self-published, 1998

23'' x 16 1/4'' 

Edition of 7 signed, dated and numbered copies

Emma Kay's subject matter (and materials, for that matter) are subjectivity and memory. After graduating from Goldsmiths College in 1997 she began compiling index-like lists of inanimate objects from novels. That year Art Metropole included her in the Little Cockroach Press series, and her contribution was a text list, separated by commas, of adjectives and nouns used by the authors of seven pornographic paperback novels ("jar of cream, camera, white velvet trousers, white velvet shoes, false prick and balls, skirt, garter belt, pants, pantyhose, undershorts, money, 2 pillows, vaginal jelly"...).

Her first memory text was The Bible from Memory, in which she recounts as much of the Bible as she is able to recall. 

After this - and before Worldview, an attempt to write down the history of the world from memory - Kay produced the Shakespeare from Memory series. 

This text recounts the "Scottish Play" from 1606, on half a sheet of paper. The work is valued at between 

$700 USD and $900 US.