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‘Novel’. Incorporating four publications: Rowlands, A. & Williams. M., (eds.) Novel ~ S.C Issue, In: Meade, F. (ed.) ‘Time Again’ Sculpture Center, New York 2011 pp.108 ISBN 0-9703955-6-6; Rowlands, A. & Williams. M., (eds.) Novel, Issue 3, Novel Publication, London-Brussels, 2010, pp. 80 ISBN 978-1-906424-10-7; Rowlands. A. & Williams. M. (eds.) Novel, Issue 2, Novel Publication, London-Birmingham, 2009 pp.48, ISBN 978-1-873352-15-1; Rowlands. A. & Williams. M. (eds.) Novel, Issue 1, Novel Publication, London- Berlin, 2008, pp.42 ISBN 978-1-906424-07-7.

Novel is an ongoing publishing project, incorporating four publications produced since 2008, co-edited with curator Matthew Williams, ICA, London. The aim of the research is to create an editorial platform that tests the potential of writing as practice within the context of contemporary art. This includes exploring the relationship between fiction, theory and the transforming forms of critical writing. A key aspect of its editorial has been the commissioning of texts that respond to historical writing or inviting artists to revisit earlier texts and scripts. In addition, Novel operates as a platform for the dispersion of research through reading events and exhibitions connected to each publication as a way of experimenting with the performance of texts. These include exhibitions at A.C Gebbers Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin (2008), Dependence, Brussels (2010) and Sculpture Centre New York (2011). All these manifestations are archived at www.novelnovelnovel.org. Rowlands has evaluated the production of Novel as an editorial/curatorial project in papers presented at symposia including Manifesta Conference, Migros Museum, Zurich (2013) questioning the formats of the journal (transcript) and exhibition (script). Novel as a journal of curated texts has already been recognised through inclusion in Christoph Keller’s touring exhibition programme Kiosk: Modes of Multiplication Mudam Luxembourg March 15 2009 - September 13 2009; and was selected by Art Forum’s Brian Sholis for ‘Live Archive’ at the first New York Triennial 2009, New Museum, New York; and was included in the prestigious ‘Millenium Magazine’, exhibition curated by David Senior at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012.