The Contemporary Journal 4, ‘Emergency and Emergence’ issue. Nottingham Contemporary.

A Soft Spot

(after Heidi Bucher, partly; pantoum-inspired, from afar)

This text is inspired by Heidi Bucher’s Räume sind hüllen, sind Häute (Rooms are skins are surroundings), from 1981, which shows Bucher working on what used to be her grandparents’ home. This video was part of the show ‘The House of Fame: Convened by Linder’, which took place in Nottingham Contemporary between March 24, 2018 and June 24, 2018, and is available via the virtual exhibition.

Keywords:

pantoum, Heidi Bucher, tissue degeneration, latex, critical poetics.