The Books! The Books!

Robert Gardner & Hollis Frampton, Ingo Gerken, Almut Hilf, Martin Hoener,
Matthias Meyer & Alexander Rischer, Hannah Rath, Rebekka Seubert, Peter Torp

19. bis 30. Oktober 2016

Eröffnung: Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2016, 19 Uhr

Foto: Alexander Rischer & Matthias Meyer, 2016

Hollis Frampton: And someone had told me, although I would never verified it, because it would require counting, that there is an odd number of words in “Ulysses” and that the word lemon stands exactly in the middle.
Robert Gardner: Somebody has done that concordance to …
Hollis Frampton: Oh yeah, it was done at Wisconsin very long time ago. I then told this to Bob Huot and he said: “Do you mean to tell me”, you see taking it very literally, “that Joyce could have written the word lemon and then written in this long funny intricate novel, written the first word to right and the first word to the left of it as it were built it up from the middle?”…
Transcript of an interview between Robert Gardner and Hollis Frampton
(Screening Room with Hollis Frampton, by Robert Gardner, Jan 1977)

Gefördert von der Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von DER, Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown.