Appendix Project
£12.00
Kate Zambreno
The first UK edition of Kate Zambreno’s seminal text on writing, photography, memory and grief, originally published by Semiotext(e).
Written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter, and inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays. These surprising and moving performances, underscored by the sleeplessness of the first year of their child’s life, contain their dazzling thinking through the work of On Kawara, Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Bhanu Kapil, Walter Benjamin, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Marguerite Duras, Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo, Jenny Holzer, and more.
‘Kate Zambreno’s Appendix Project and Book of Mutter are meditations on grief, motherhood, and memory alongside and through Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Mourning Diary. These are also books about reading and seeing. To enter them is to be in the company of a writer with a tremendous capacity and gift for questioning, thinking, and feeling. These are extraordinary works.’ – Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes
Book of Mutter and Appendix Project can be purchased together for just £20. Click here if you would like to order the set.
Description
The first UK edition of Kate Zambreno’s seminal text on writing, photography, memory and grief, originally published by Semiotext(e).
Written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter, and inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays. These surprising and moving performances, underscored by the sleeplessness of the first year of their child’s life, contain their dazzling thinking through the work of On Kawara, Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Bhanu Kapil, Walter Benjamin, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Marguerite Duras, Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo, Jenny Holzer, and more.
‘Kate Zambreno’s Appendix Project and Book of Mutter are meditations on grief, motherhood, and memory alongside and through Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Mourning Diary. These are also books about reading and seeing. To enter them is to be in the company of a writer with a tremendous capacity and gift for questioning, thinking, and feeling. These are extraordinary works.’ – Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes
‘Zambreno’s oeuvre is not just a series of books but a body of thought, an uninterrupted exhortation on incompleteness and the intersections of life, death, time, memory, and silence.’ – Sarah Manguso, The Paris Review
‘“But still it interests me” – so writes Kate Zambreno in Appendix Project, a powerful, necessary, and defiantly untimely defence of what Richard Howard, translating Roland Barthes, called continuance. By way of the books she persists in reading and rereading, the mother whom she is still mourning, the questions she keeps on asking, rephrasing, and finding new ways of asking, Zambreno claims her right to stay with what is not yet exhausted. This is a book about how things – interests, attachments, experiences, projects – don’t finish; in Zambreno’s hands, this means it is also a book about openness.’ – Kate Briggs
‘This collection of 11 talks and essays reveals her anew as a master of the experimental lyric essay… the calm inquiry, wise voice, and poignant urgency behind every sentence will coalesce into a deeply reflective meditation on art, loss, and how time makes the intensity of mourning pass – and yet, nothing is soothed.’ – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Kate Zambreno is the author of ten books, most recently The Light Room, a meditation on art and care, published in the UK by Corsair, along with a reissue of their seminal text Heroines. Tone, a collaborative study with Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, was recently published by Columbia University Press. Forthcoming is Animal Studies, a book of zoos and Kafka, as part of the Undelivered Lectures series at Transit Books. They are a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. Book of Mutter and its companion text of lectures, Appendix Project, are being reissued together by Prototype. Zambreno is at work on a series of books, Realisms, circling around precarity and interiors.
