Directing Lab Residency at Mercury Store

Drafts on Communal Mind and Kaspar, NYC 2022

Communal Mind

 The residency's first assignment was to work on a loose adaptation of Patricia Lockwood's Communal Mind. The rubric was: To use all the word of the text.

Delivered as a lecture at the British Library and published in the LRB, this piece is an interesting take on The Internet and what it might be doing to our heads. Lockwood is a prose stylist – sometimes too much, which can make her a bit of a Marmite writer, but I really enjoyed this attempt to describe the felt experience of scrolling though the random stream of information on the web. She uses third person to speak about herself in an interesting way too (cf Annie Ernaux): “She opened the portal. ‘Are we all just going to keep doing this till we die?’” (London Review of Books)

Kaspar

During the last two months of the residency, we had the option to work freely. For the development of my work I chose the text Kaspar by Peter Handke

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