Artist Tracey Moberly has saved every single text message she has ever received since 1999. TEXT-ME-UP! is an autobiographical work using the author's words and samples from all the texts she has received from people since the start of the SMS text messaging era. The book will be extensively illustrated featuring many of the artworks which Tracey has produced and exhibited over the last few years in relation to her work with texts.

            The narrative is interspersed with past and current texts as she recalls a forgotten moment from a text prompting a question or an answer at the time of her current writing of the book. She has also invited several writers who have been part of her text process to write short pieces.

            The story begins in Manchester, directly after Madchester, when she finds herself as a single parent following the breakdown of a long term tumultuous relationship and marriage. It follows accounts of her life and others through the tales of people’s text messages she’s received. At the same time Tracey weaves in another narrative of psychogeographical histories and places in the worlds of both popular and unpopular culture in Manchester and London.

            "Text messages are like little sugar rushes of contact, postcards for the people’s cyberspace."

For more information about Tracey Moberly's art, see here website at www.sanderswood.com.

Here's Tracey being interviewed by Russia's Snob magazine:

Details

Hardback, full colour, 336 pages

Price £20

ISBN 9781905636822

Rights

World