Australian writer Anwen Crawford joined us virtually on June 13, 2022 for a conversation with Juliana Spahr about her book, No Document (Transit Books).
“Anwen Crawford’s remarkable new work of non-fiction, No Document, is many kinds of document, but one of the ways it can be read is as an attempt to discover a form of writing fit for ephemeral art practices - especially as those practices relate to, or become bound up with, experiences of vulnerability, pain, and mortality.… No Document is forged in a void it cannot fill: a void it does and does not want to fill. How can you write a history of arts of disappearance, a history that lets the past run through its fingers, when those arts bec...