Book Discussion & Screening: Bernadette Mayer’s MEMORY

Sunday, Apr. 21, 2pm

Tickets $8 TSL Members, $10 General
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Time & Space Ltd
434 Columbia St
Hudson, NY 

A celebration of the recent 2nd edition printing of Memory the conceptual art book based on Mayer’s 1971 groundbreaking visual and poetic work. Featuring a screening of the special 35 minute moving-image presentation of this artwork (created for the Museum of Modern Art in 2019), followed by a panel discussion with Mayer’s daughter and literary critics.

Siglio Press second printing copies of Memory will be available for purchase at this event. 

In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film and kept a daily journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. Memory is both monumental in scope (over 1100 photographs, two hundred pages of text and six hours of audio recording) and a groundbreaking work by a poet who is widely regarded as one of the most innovative writers of her generation. Presaging Mayer’s durational and constraint-based diaristic works of poetry, it also evinces her extraordinary—and unheralded—contribution to conceptual art.

For more information about this project, go to the Siglio web page about the book and its history.