A space of seventy-two years separates Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard and Broodthaers’ Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1897 to 1969, respectively). Broodthaers, a writer, “abandoned” writing to work as an artist on a book by another writer, Mallarmé, who…(Read More)

With this session, I propose a reading of Her Majesty Sylvia M., a book made using random phrases from wall panels at the National Gallery in London and illustrated with versions of drawings by Sylvia Plath. Our reference here will be “The White Room” from Marcel Broodthaers’ L’Angelus de Daumier. The book title plays…(Read More)

I remember when I was a child and would choose books for their formats rather than their content, but how to judge a book by its cover, if the cover is still to come? Coinciding with the Summer Solstice events, I am proposing the session “Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out…(Read More)