In July 1971, the poet and artist Bernadette Mayer undertook her own study of the medium for a project called Memory in which she shot a roll of 35mm film every day of that month while keeping a daily journal. Manuscript finding aid for Bernadette Mayer Papers. A revered classic of 1970s New York conceptualism, Bernadette Mayer's Memory synthesizes writing and photography in this prescient "emotional science project"In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com. The result was what Mayer calls an “emotional science project”: a conceptual, hybrid work that incorporates photography and text to display the texture and raw material of memory. Language Is a Temptation: Daily Readings from Bernadette Mayer’s Memory — ONLINE! She shot a roll of 35mm film each day, and kept a rigorous daily journal. She received her B.A. Memory (2020) From Siglio Press, a new publication of Mayer’s 1971 project Memory, that “brings together the full sequence of images and text for the first time in book form, making space for a work that has been legendary but mostly invisible.”. Bernadette Mayer was born on May 12, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. Bernadette Mayer reads an excerpt from Memory (1971). In MEMORY, Bernadette Mayer not only provides us with data from the past, recent and remote, but she has somehow found the means to recreate archaic modes of representation of inner and outer sensory data, by reviving the quality of consciousness in which they occurred. Bernadette Mayer: Memory. July 1971 was a random point in time. A page from the July 26, 1971, entry of Memory by Bernadette Mayer. I didn’t know what was going to happen, and that was the idea. In July 1971, Mayer began experimenting with her memory. $45.00) (No reviews yet) Write a Review. January 14, 2021 issue. Recording of Mayer reading the final text of Memory.Bernadette Mayer Papers. Bernadette Mayer’s Memory, now on view at CANADA gallery, was originally shown at Holly Solomon’s performance space in 1972.Mayer shot a … Reviewed: Memory. SKU: 978-1938221255. from the New School for Social Research in 1967, shortly after which she began teaching there on a part-time, semi-permanent basis. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Bernadette Mayer: Memory. Ed Bowes, my boyfriend at the time, had been hired by the Berkshire Theatre Festival to make films. I ended up being on the road a lot, going between city and country. — Every single day in July at 3 p.m. EST — Poets House IGTV, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube! A new edition of Bernadette Mayer’s Memory helps us rediscover a poet whose experiments create a new relationship between poem and reader. During the month of July in 1971, poet Bernadette Mayer exposed a roll of 35 mm film every day and kept a daily journal. Siglio. MSS 420. 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