Astrid Seme: Baroness Elsa’s em dashes
Softcover, perfect binding, 10.5 × 14.6 cm, 96 pages
2nd extended edition, design: Astrid Seme, 2019/2021
The 1st edition was co-published by Kunstverein Langenhagen in connection with the exhibition She is the future, curated by Noor Mertens, 2019.
ISBN: 978-3-903353-10-7
€13
The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes in the poems of pioneering Dadaist artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874 – 1927).
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