"Elegy always has a way of creeping into art that documents the once teeming, now empty past: it is almost too painful to glimpse the innocence and the freedom of Mayer’s summer from the point of view of our current fearful season. It can seem a dubious advantage to have survived all those disconnected phones, defunct addresses, dead or forgotten friends. At our moment in history, ‘Memory' reads in part as an archive of suspended (in both senses of the word) pleasures.” —Dan Chiasson @newyorkermag⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Bernadette Mayer: Memory is published by @sigliopresss⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many have reopened or offer curbside pickup! ⁠⠀ #bernadettemayer #memory #bernadettemayermemory #conceptualart #experimentalliterature #readwomen⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CEmvZ7sj9ZR/?igshid=13uonbdnyvjvk

“'Memory' tempts you to linger on the substantive, but, with its bountiful cars, highways, gas stations, rivers, and bridges, it’s really about getting somewhere. It is happiest in the in-between, and hyperalert to its own transit from one word and image to the next.” —Dan Chiasson @newyorkermag⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Bernadette Mayer: Memory is published by @sigliopresss⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many have reopened or offer curbside pickup! ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #bernadettemayer #memory #bernadettemayermemory #conceptualart #experimentalliterature #readwomen⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CEmYdvmJBgz/?igshid=cy5j2d9un7k7

📸 Congrats @sigliopress on this great 'Bernadette Mayer: Memory' review @elephantmagazine 🐘(Forthcoming, June 2020)⁠⠀ Emily Gosling writes, "Memory is a strange thing, susceptible to the vicissitudes of time, emotion, personality and politics. It never stays exactly the same, and is formulated of any number of different impulses and outside interactions, many of which are beyond our control and consciousness. Our memories are so personal to each of us, and they can easily change from day to day, hour to hour, year to year, as details fade or regress into the background, or different parts of that memory suddenly become more important than before in light of new experiences and realizations.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ This slipperiness is one thing that makes Bernadette Mayer’s new book, titled—you guessed it—Memory, so compelling. The book is the culmination of what began as a conceptual project in July 1971, in which Mayer, an artist and poet, decided to shoot a roll of 35mm film every day for a month, and keep an accompanying journal. What came out of this was more than 1100 photographs, two hundred pages of text and six hours of audio recording. The project also explored a new mode of weaving together conceptual art practice, poetry and journaling."⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #bernadettemayer #bernadettemayermemory #memory @nalascarlett @canada.nyc @poetryfoundation https://www.instagram.com/p/CAD2uayjR2n/?igshid=1m8g16a8lj32j