The Ghostword Sembles Itself

On 22nd June 1976, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sat by the tomb of Tristan Tzara in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, listening to the rain.  This gesture instigates a cut-up practice to disassemble and reassemble some of Cha’s words, creating the opportunity to liberate some of her vocabulary from the poetic structures she creates in her writing and hear her words with fresh resonance.

 

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