A Faggot is A Unit︎︎︎ Padraig Robinson

A Faggot is a Unit
Padraig Robinson

Binder clip-bound Risograph publication printed by Ranch Pressing (AU) for Have A Nice Day Press (IT/US)

168 pages

28 x 21cms

Exhibition edition of 50

May 2024

AU$20 + postage. Please contact us to order.

A Faggot is a Unit is a bound bundle of three distinct yet interconnected works by Padraig Robinson including a retrograde monthly calendar selected from seven years of material from Robinson’s archive.

The book is published by Have A Nice Day Press (IT/US) which develops and publishes books, editions and ephemera by artists whose work is informed by Internet culture.

This edition of 50 books was printed by Ranch Pressing to accompany the artist’s solo exhibition at Platform Arts.

“A Faggot is a Unit (Hommage to Hanne Darboven) is made up of working notes for two books and a feature film. Each selected page is a substrate for a retrograde monthly calendar, acknowledging an approach that has kept my mind busy through many lives. Not so much looking back, but shimmering ass-forward into the future like a wired up, slightly drunk version of Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History, yet the detritus piling up behind her is digital, annoyingly digital, where identity is the only infinite resource we may have left.”

Padraig Robinson in conversation with curator Sarah Jones.