Jessica Higgins - They Said! (On Julius Eastman's Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc) Book

Saddle stitched, brown and red risograph printed interior, letterpress printed cover with silver ink. 24 pages. We're excited to finally release THEY SAID! On Julius Eastman's Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc' by Jessica Higgins. Jessica is an artist and writer based in Glasgow who is intrinsically linked to TGIFITIFFY in a number of ways: contributor, occasional editor, stoker of some excited cinders. However, here she brings her “solo voice” writing a fan's essay-on-music over 24 pages. THEY SAID! simmers, boils and simmers again on the 1981 solo vocal composition Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc. Language, listening and voice are at the core of the essay. As is the relationship between Julius Eastman and Joan d'Arc which, as readers, we're invited not to divide into two individual histories but encouraged to consider a singular position which both figures may have inhabited across distances. The essay opens with an exclamation mark which weaves through the text,