Issue #144 Singing the Zahir Away: Lucier Meets Borges

Singing the Zahir Away: Lucier Meets Borges

Alessandro Bosetti

144_bosetti_01

Image courtesy of Alessandro Bosetti & Fatima Bianchi.

Issue #144
April 2024










Notes
1

Bergson, Matter and Memory, trans. Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer (Dover, 2004).

2

“The Immortal,” in Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions, 1964), 118.

3

“Averroës’s Search,” in Labyrinths, 151.

4

Lucier, interview with Matthieu Saladin, La même et le different (Éditions MF, 2023). My translation. A similar distinction is made by John Lely and James Saunders: “There are several kinds of verbal notations. There’s the kind that gives more or less accurate instructions to the performers. Others are merely suggestive or poetic. They are often unperformable and merely present an idea to ponder.” Lely and Saunders, Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation (Continuum, 2012).

5

“The Immortal,” in The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin, 2004), 12.

6

Lapoujade, Puissances du temps: Versions de Bergson (Éditions de Minuit, 2010).

7

Cited in Gilles Deleuze, Le Bergsonisme (Presses Universitaires de France, 2004).

8

The 2018 version is available on YouTube . The 1981 version is on Lucier’s record I am sitting in a room, Lovely Music, 1981.

9

Morandini, Gli oscillanti (Bompiani, 2019). My translation.

10

“Funes the Memorious,” in Labyrinths, 63.

11

“Funes the Memorious,” 59.

12

“The Zahir,” in Labyrinths, 161.

13

“The Zahir,” 164.