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Hyperallergic reviews the Madeline Gins Reader: “In excess of the singular self”
Karla Kelsey writes: “The I-as-reader is capable of deep, intermingled connection, a connection that is not only trans-personal or trans-species, but trans-material.”
Bookforum reviews Memory: A Hydra dancing at the intersections of language and image
Jennifer Krasinksi writes: “Mayer’s self-portraits, often taken while staring into the lens, somehow appear like eerie proof that she was seeing us long before we would see her.”
Artforum interviews Bernadette Mayer about Memory: “I should have become a thief”
Janique Vigier writes in her intro: “The project combined the taxonomic system of conceptual art with the emotive mystery of daily life: steel buildings catching the sun, a lover’s hands on a steering wheel, the incidental self-portraiture of a grocery list.”
On Lithub: “Reading John Cage in Reykjavík”
J. Mae Barizo on LITHUB: “I thought of Cage’s prescience in his diaries when it came to the complexities of technology in the 21st century. ‘We need an utterly wireless technology,’ he wrote almost 30 years before the Internet.”
Dick Higgins reviewed in Bookforum: “An unruly guide to publishing & preserving one’s cultural present”
Brian Dillon writes at Bookforum: ““The force of Dick Higgins’ personality, the sheer intellectual & organizational energy in evidence here, the insights into Fluxus—all make this an essential volume.”
Dick Higgins reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement: “Betweenness”
Craig Dworkin writes at the TLS: “Betweenness is central to Higgins’s interest in the ‘intermedia’ bordering traditional disciplines.”