This morning I passed through the pages Philip J. Deloria’s Becoming Mary Sully, looking past the names, for a word: ‘Gossip’. Beyond the above image, there was nothing written there or here online about this work or word by Sully and so I took another – well-worn – route, back to documenta 14. Here is […]
Andrea Geyer: We have talked about time, labour, performance, commitment to community, materials and the way culture runs through and within us as the artists who make it. Is there anything you would like to add? Maria Hupfield: I want to return to this idea of a thing or object as an event that unfolds […]
No words today; only an idiom (courtesy Sophie Von Hellermann) (Oh, if these pages could speak, what a sad tale they would tell!)
One of my fantasies is to be somehow able to relate to you, all in one go, my experience as a library ghost, like a snapshot, I could just show you, rather than have my story broken down into these inadequate daily posts, some of which I feel I am not even present. Even if […]
Every time you open a book, you say yes to a world. – anonymous (after Caroline Bergvall)
If is beyond obvious to say that to reach the words in a book, it first has to be opened. Well, at least for living, human readers. Even though the shelves I haunt comprise of rows of closed tomes, one of my abilities as a library’s ghost is that I can see within them and […]
From the library to the book; from the book to the word. Let’s start by highlighting the glaring use of light by Natalie Diaz in her collection Postcolonial Love Poem – and in her podcast with Tin House – only to turn to the hidden touch of delight in the repetition of the word thigh.
This week, in spite of clearing my throat, I don’t yet feel like I’ve found my voice. As yesterday’s post testifies, my librarian – old Loosh, Minus, Mr Feddle, whatever you want to call him – is so often in a rush to get these daily missives out there, that he doesn’t represent me or […]
And, no, I’m not primarily thinking of the cast of the Victory of Samothrace in Ohio State University’s Thompson Library (although I’m open to hacking that space in the future!). Instead it is a whole other library (one in which material matters) that prompts me to have my librarian post this today and I’ll let […]
There are innumerous books about libraries as well as books that behave like libraries in their anthologizing ambitions. But just as no man is an island, no library is a book. We all know men who would beg to differ, although that’s what makes men men (their relentless mansplaining in begging to differ!). Take my […]