Oriole Press

An artists’ imprint for experimental reading and writing.


Oriole Press is run by artist, designer & facilitator francis burger, and friends. It exists to make room for love letters from infatuated disciples, for books about books, and whip scorpions.

Oriole Press is named after the Black-Headed Oriole that frequents the pockets of broad-leaved endemics that hug the  north-facing (frost-sheltered) ridges of Johannesburg’s peri-urban neighbourhoods – the Oriole stays a little out of sight but pronounces itself through its loud whistles and imitations, and its distinctive ‘liquid-sounding warble’ (a perfect description via wikipedia and a recording of the call below, the warble is about mid-way).

   


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Oriole Press is run by artist, designer & facilitator francis burger, and friends. It exists to make room 


Publications Addressed to its intended
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Addressed to its intended, texts and images by Erin Honeycutt and francis burger. 15 pages and cut flower in printed envelope, Risograph printed in burgundy ink. Edition of 50. Printed at Cutt Press, Kurfürstenstraße. Published by Oriole Press and Cutt Press, Berlin, 2023.

South Africa R250
Europe & UK €15Prices exclude shipping
Available in Berlin from @Cutt_Press



Addressed to its intended collects written and graphic negotiations of thresholds and bodily announcements – of skin, paper, 'the book', bodies, speaking, letters, undergrowth. 

Featuring the rough tongue of a holy ghost cat, a island cemetery, a few circling dogs, and many textures gathered on a lino-roller, from the garden of an extended family home in Västra Götalands county in Sweden.

...if only there was an island cat on this Cemetery island who would walk up to me and with its scruffy holy tongue lick a piece of me, that would be my skin, and there, skin to tongue, living with the living, creature to creature, speech to touch, inner surface to outer surface, we would truly speak.

—‘Skin diaries’, in ‘Addressed to its intended’, by Erin Honeycutt and francis burger, 2023.

Edition of 50, risograph printed in burgundy ink on various materials and bound by an envelope. Texts and images by Erin Honeycutt and francis burger, with excerpts from Italo Calvino, José Saramago, and a notebook drawing by Sara-Aimee Verity. 

no wonder 
how mice 
eat the glue off paper
read with their teeth
—from ‘no wonder’, in ‘Addressed to its intended’, Erin Honeycutt and francis burger, 2023



i look around and all the
little heads of flowers 
are bobbing their heads
as if looking up to some thing above and waiting to be given something, 
the way a dog anticipates 
but this is roses, 
gardenias,
chrysanthemums, 
not dogs.
—‘Skin diaries’, in ‘Addressed to its intended’, by Erin Honeycutt and francis burger, 2023.

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Addressed to its intended
Erin Honeycutt and francis burger 
2023 

15 loose pages with folded elements and cut flower shape in brown tissue paper, green smiley face sticker, and an A6 piece of acetate, bound in a printed C5 envelope.

Risograph printed in Berlin at Cutt Press, Kurfürstenstraße

Edition of 50

Published by Oriole Press and Cutt Press

Berlin


Oriole Press
Johannesburg, 2001.
South Africa.