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Hole Punch: The Late Autobiographical Works of Dieter Roth

Hole Punch: The Late Autobiographical Works of Dieter Roth is an essay that forms part of the publication Dieter Roth: Diaries (2012). In this essay I blend an art historical approach to Roth’s interwined biography and work with a poetic “art-writing” approach so that my interpretation of Roth’s work is sympathetic to the approaches employed by the artist. Dieter Roth: Diaries focuses on one of the primary spaces in which Roth merged art and life – the diaries he kept throughout his life. This publication is the first to focus on Roth’s diaries and to begin to examine the impact they may have on the production, reception and interpretation of his art. It was published to accompany an exhibition of Roth’s diaries, notebooks, copybooks and related works at The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh for the 2012 Edinburgh Art Festival. This exhibition and publication are an important first step towards a proper scholarly consideration of Roth through this most intimate of forms. Since the publication of this book, Lowndes has disseminated her thoughts on Roth's diaries at two public events, the first “The Writing Voice of Dieter Roth” a paper on Dieter Roth, delivered at 'An awfully dreadfully fearful drain he fell down into, wriggling there, at the bottom, in his wet pants'*: Dieter Roth and Art History, seminar at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, October 2012. An audio recording of this seminar was subsequently made available on the Fruitmarket's website. When the exhibition, Dieter Roth: Diaries toured to the Camden Art Centre in London in May 2013, Lowndes appeared In conversation with the artist's son and collaborator Bjorn Roth at the opening of the exhibition. Photographs and an audio recording of this event were subsequently made available online by the Camden Art Centre.