Ulysses

Simon Popper

Simon Popper’s manuscript, Ulysses, is a reel-to-reel re-transcription of Joyce’s every word, reordered here in attenuated alphabetical arrangement like a heap of verbal playing cards. Absurd absurd absurdity ABU Abulafia abundance abundance abundance abundant abundant ABUNDANT … Haddington haddock haddock haddy Hades hadnt hadnt hadnt hadnt … Echoic ghostwriting (phonotation?) in spoken word affect, this text begs to be run as “soundmeat” through a voice. It even sits, on the page, like Joyce’s protégé Samuel Beckett’s 1972 monologue, Not I, staged in pitch-darkness save for an illumined mouth.

 

 

exhibited at Belmacz on the occasion of I dialogue, Kinch (2021), a group exhibition centred around the centenary of Ulysses.

 

 

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