Gumming Up The Works by PamFlettPress

'Gumming up the works' fantasizes about luminous constellations of dropped chewing gum on the street, confronts a horrible compulsion to seek out the hard stuff glued under desks or in the recesses of train carriages before finding itself fixated upon various species of lumps, heaps and piles: ultimately the essay explores creative work as a sort of digestion or composting, and suggests we have quite a lot to learn from worms.
This spoken word essay is accompanied by a publication featuring 26000 words of excessive, digressive footnotes, the generation of which have become the point of the exercise... Footnotes occur at the times indicated by the Pam Flett Press comments on the track. They are about lichen, large format photography, islands, creative block, binary erotics, fiddling, getting side-tracked, stickiness, shit, disgust, using animals to think with, the Katamari Damacy computer game, tumbleweed methodology, hoarding, clutter, impropriety, rubbish...
For more info & to get hold of a copy of the print publication go to the website http://www.joannelee.info/_/gumminguptheworks.html where you can also download a pdf transcript of the recording.