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"The book will be extensively illustrated featuring many of the artworks which Tracey has produced and exhibited over the last few years in relation to her work with texts. A memoir of the most original kind, Text Me Up! is interspersed with past and current texts as she recalls a forgotten moment from her life prompting a question or an answer, piecing together the seminal moments of her existence. Tracey has also invited a number of artists, musicians, friends and acquaintances from whom she's received text messages to contribute to this memoir. Asking them to contribute their thoughts on the moments and circumstances surrounding their text communications. Tracey's story begins in Manchester, directly after Madchester, when she finds herself a single parent following the breakdown of a long term, tumultuous relationship. At the same time Tracey weaves in another narrative of psychogeographical histories and places in Manchester, London, Moscow, New York and Haiti. Her journey moves between popular and unpopular culture, from underground to mainstream in the worlds of both music and art. The web of text messages weaves around and include some of popular culture's key figures, including Banksy, Bill Drummond, Hoard Mr NiceA"" Marks, Irvine Welsh, Aiden Shaw, Pete Doherty, Subcommandante Insurgent Marcos, and John Sinclair. Taking one of the newest, most popular forms on communication and using it as a starting point from which to examine her life, Tracey has crafted a work that straddles art, literature, technology and popular culture."

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Tracey Moberly's project is a fascinating use of new technology as a narrative tool, much in the spirit of Andy Warhol's work with PolaroidsA - Angie Bowie

"Tracey Moberly's project is a fascinating use of new technology as a narrative tool, much in the spirit of Andy Warhol's work with Polaroids."" - Angie Bowie ""This isn't a coffee table book, this is a chemical generation's pocket-bible of real stories, real visionaries, real people, from Holloway to Haiti, all documented with photographic and SMS evidence. No introduction will do justice the gravity of courage, depth, emotion, comradeship and creativity injected into each page."" Sabotage Times"

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Tracey Moberly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and was co-owner of Shoreditch's legendary hangout, The Foundry. She lectured in Art at Manchester Metropolitan University before moving to London and where she is now a visiting lecturer in activism and politics. She has staged several exhibitions of her work in texts and hosts the weekly arts radio programme The Late Late Breakfast Show. Tracey has travelled extensively with her art, working in remote areas of Eastern Siberia, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico. Shortly before the earthquake she took part in Haiti's Ghetto Biennale with the Grand Rue sculptors of Port-au-Prince. Tracey lives in London.

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