Jujube/memoir

Memoir

This is an ongoing endeavor for which I haven't found the most fitting form to materialize. I am using this page as a repository for all the references, thoughts and smaller, concrete experiments. To know the actual shape of the project is going to take a while...

Readings

• "How to Write an Autobiographical Novel", Alexander Chee[1]
• "Certain Fragments", Tim Etchells[2]
• "The Archive", Documents of Contemporary Art
• "Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process", Rohan Liz Kirsch
• "Poetics", Aristotle[3]
• "Dictee", Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• "Dear Reader, Don't Read", Catalog: Ulises Carrión, Guy Schraenen[4]

Watchings

• The Casting, Omar Fast [5]
• Talk Show, Omar Fast [6]

Keywords

personal memories & cultural history

traveling & exile

serendipity & choice

the universality of emotions

Empathy: "I can relate" or "I can connect", through narratives

Bits & Pieces

Things I wrote: "Rule of Novels"/"Eating Alone in Tallinn"/"Dinner"

Things I did: Rooftop Barter/Future Memories/Mobile Lemon (tinyletter)

"And sometimes, sometimes...men, missing what was once home, we cry silently in order to become old men." (Reza Jalali/Moth)

saudade [7]