Oliver Baez Bendorf – The Secret Life of Notebooks: Navigating Between Object and Realm (July 2024)

How can notebooks serve as portals between the act of writing and the expansive landscapes of our minds? Looking at examples from bell hooks, Joe Brainard, Maxine Hong Kingston and others, Bendorf’s lecture explores notebooks as both objects and realms that offer privacy, grounding, and a space for unpoliced imagination.