Father Time

I like to think I’m a smart cookie, but sometimes …. After the student presentations last night I was thinking about the possible themes I’ll be working on. All of them had some sort of relationship with time, and I’d said already that I’d been fascinated with the concepts of time from my early 20s.… Continue reading Father Time

More Books, Perec and Keri Smith

More reading for the New Year! Keri Smith’s ‘Everything is Connected’ is a book of postcards (!) with suggestions or inspirations for practical art if you run out of ideas. Perec’s books are ‘Life, a user’s manual’ and ‘I remember’.

“Space melts like sand running through one’s fingers. Time bears it away and leaves me only shapeless shreds.” from Perec’s ‘Species of Spaces’

I’ve been slowly making my way through this book. which is really a collection of essays and articles, on various themes – the book title is ” Species of Spaces and other pieces”. I bought it last week and don’t intend now to read it all the way through, but just to dip in from… Continue reading “Space melts like sand running through one’s fingers. Time bears it away and leaves me only shapeless shreds.” from Perec’s ‘Species of Spaces’

Georges Perec: Soft Chalk and Pigeons

This is a journal paper by Walsh, Meeka.  Border Crossings; Winnipeg Vol. 30, Iss. 2,  (Jun-Aug 2011): 12-13. Walsh reported that the absence of Perec’s father to WWII and death in 1940 and death of his mother in1943 in Auschwitz left a void or a space in his life and that, “He saw neither of them again, and he wrote that… Continue reading Georges Perec: Soft Chalk and Pigeons

New Books

Boltanski’s work was mentioned by Michele in our 121 and it seemed quite pertinent, so I got 2 of his books from World of Books. I was listening to Zadie Smith on Radio 4+ and she said some very relevant things, but I was listening in bed and fell asleep as she talked, so I… Continue reading New Books