I went to bed and woke in another century

Abstract

Zoe Tissandier reflects on her evolving body of work, ‘I went to bed and woke in another century’, which collects online news headlines and recreates them as letterpress prints. She discusses how this work and process is informed by the notion of the personal ‘countertype’ collector, defined by Walter Benjamin, and looks at how one can trace narratives through such accumulated content. The author explores how the process of utilizing an outmoded technology such as letterpress allowed her to introduce a new temporality to the inherently transient nature of the headline itself.