Heated Words: Initial Research — House of Vans, London, 2015

A printed exhibition object issued for Heated Words: Initial Research, House of Vans, London, 2015. Folded to pamphlet scale and opening to a larger poster format, the piece documents a project centred on the circulation of an anonymous transfer-letter style moving through late 1970s and 1980s New York street culture, early hip-hop, punk, custom clothing, and graphic vernacular.

The recto consists of a single full-image panel: a black-and-white street photograph overprinted in red with title, dates, and contributor list. The verso opens into four panels combining typographic enlargement, a diagrammatic mapping of names and scenes, programme information, and a text by Gary Warnett. Printed in black and red, it functions less as neutral exhibition support than as a compact research surface.

For The New Rare, the interest lies in the conversion that takes place here. A vernacular form with no fixed author passes into exhibition research; exhibition research passes into print; print remains as the retained object. What is offered is not the source material itself, but its organised afterlife: a folded record of circulation, selection, and display.

The names listed do not operate simply as a roster of exhibiting artists, but as research nodes within a larger field of use, influence, documentation, and scene formation. In that sense, the guide holds a distributed authorship structure already close to the New Rare framework: not originality as such, but placement; not origin, but transfer; not statement, but residue.

Dimensions: 27 × 20 cm folded / 54 × 40 cm unfolded.

Condition: very good overall, with original fold lines, light handling wear, minor softening to edges and corners, and faint creasing consistent with use and format.

Price includes shipping and handling. Packed flat with protective support; tracked service included.