Mycelium
$29.67
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2019
Summary
In a novel set against a transforming Berlin, an artist confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer.Going to openings and parties, setting up a studio and breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, Noora is living the post-art school life in Berlin when,in 2005, she’s diagnosed with breast cancer. Vaguely restless, until now she’s been neither happy nor unhappy, but her entry into what she calls “Cancerland” forces her to question the assumptions by which she lived her life so far.Uneasily, she real…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901009 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635901006 |
| Author: | Annette Weisser |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Mycelium is rich with ideas; it brings the personal and the political together through prose that is spare and, occasionally, disorienting. This is a novel about one woman’s life, but it’s also a meditation on art, illness, urbanity, and history.
—3 AMAbout The Author
Annette Weisser
Annette Weisser is an artist and writer who lives in Berlin. From 2006 to 2019, she taught in the MFA program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Her writings have appeared in Die Zeit Online, Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, Afterall, and other publications. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including Kunsthaus Dresden, Westf lisches Landesmuseum, M nster, and Reception Gallery, Berlin. The monograph Make Yourself Available was published in 2015 in conjunction with her solo exhibitions at Heidelberger Kunstverein and Kunstverein Langenhagen.
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