Stewart Home - The Correct Way To Boil Water

Stewart Home - The Correct Way To Boil Water

(Sabotage Editions, 2005)

Limited printrun pamphlet including reviews, interviews and articles by Stewart Home

Review by John Eden: 

By my reckoning this booklet, published on 26th December 2005, is the 14th released by Sabotage Editions. It is part of a trilogy released to commemorate the demise of the International Standard Book Numbering system. Like many of its precursors it collects diverse articles, reviews and other writing by Stewart Home. So, as usual, a mixed bag - and all the better for that.

Major articles this time include an extended look at psychedelia and the avant-garde, which takes in the connections with Lettrist cinema and exploitation movies, along with a large amount of insights gained from Stewart’s extensive research for his novel Tainted Love.

A number of books related to the legacy of of the Situationist International are reviewed with Stewart’s characteristic rigour, humour and lack of romanticism.

I found the large section dealing with Tony Wakeford’s reaction to the publication of the critical We Mean It Man: Punk Rock and Anti-Racism - or, Death in June Not Mysterious especially interesting. Indeed I would urge anyone with a passing interest in that somewhat jaded end of industrial culture to read both pieces.

Those interested in more progressive occultural currents will recall the feature in Rapid Eye on performance artist Andre Stitt. Stewart’s thoughts on Stitt are included here, linking his work with shamanism.

Stewart Home was born in south London in 1962. He developed an interest in northern soul and punk rock as a teenager, and from 1974 onwards spent a lot of his time hanging around the West End of London, both alone and in the company of other juveniles.

After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he first signed on the dole in the late seventies, and last claimed unemployment benefits in the mid-nineties. He has never held down a regular job for more than a few months at a time. On those rare occasions when he's been forced to work, Home has taken employment as a factory labourer, agricultural labourer, shop assistant, office clerk and art class model.

Deciding he didn't like working in factories as a teenager, Home pursued cultural and political interests, writing many books and participating in even more gallery exhibitions. He lives in London. Thames water, rather than blood, is said to run through Home's veins.

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