CITATIONS: ARCHIVES

Susan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives, New York: Christine Burgin/New Directions, [2014]

“[Poet] Robert Duncan writes: “The secret of the poetic art lies in the keeping of time...To keep time—designing or discovering lines of melodic coherence...Counting the measures, marking them off, the whole intensified in the poet's sense of its limitation. One image may recall another, finding depth in the re-sounding…” ”

“Often by chance, via out-of-the-way card catalogues, or through previous web surfing, a particular "deep" text, or a simple object… reveals itself here at the surface of the visible, by mystic documentary telepathy. Quickly. Precariously. Coming as it does from an opposite direction…”

“The English definition for text and textile is taken from the Latin, "textus" from "textere" to weave, meaning that which is woven. In research libraries and collections, we may capture the portrait of history in so-called insignificant visual and verbal textualities and textiles. In material details. In twill fabrics, bead-work pieces, pricked patterns, tiny spangles, sharp toothed stencil-wheels; in quotations, thought-fragments, inscriptions, endangered phonemes, even soils and stains.”

“Quotations are lines or passages seized at hazard from piled up cultural treasures.”

Schneider, Rebecca. Performing Remains: Art and War in times of Theatrical Reenactment, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2011.

“Can we account not only for the way differing media cite and incite each other but for the ways that the meaning of one form takes place in the response of another?”

 “When we habitually read documents as evidence and evidence as indication of a past supposedly gone by, do we overlook the liveness of temporal deferral, the real time of our complicities?”

Citational performance as a call to action, that can be “resonant in the varied and reverberant cross-temporal spaces where an echo might encounter response.”

 Keywords: cross-temporality, re-performance, re-presentation, echoes, time drags, time lags, deferrals, reoccurrence