Tributes to Etel Adnan
A tender collection of essays paying homage to the life and workof the late Lebanese poet and painter Etel AdnanIncludes contributions from authors Eileen Myles, Hans UlrichObrist, Robert Wilson, Lynne Tillman, Anne Waldman, AbdellatifLaâbi, Ariana Reines, and more, together with a selection ofAdnan’s final, never-before-published watercolour paintingsCo-published with Bidoun‘Etel. Her name has a talismanic quality. We heard about her in California, met herin Beirut, ate ice cream with her in Paris. […] We wrote down everything she saidbecause it had the feel/cadence/glow of sacred wisdom.’ Negar Azimi, Anna DellaSubin, Michael C. VazquezMy Center is Not The Solar System is a sweeping and tender collection of essayson the life and work of the late Lebanese poet and painter Etel Adnan, whoseart bore witness to so many of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ epochalshifts. In ever-evolving and experimental forms, the book gathers reflectionsfrom friends, collaborators, and admirers, alongside a selection of Adnan’s final,previously unpublished watercolour paintings. Co-published with Bidoun, thisvolume stands as both tribute and testament to an artist whose presence, like herwords, continues to radiate.With writings by Aria Aber, Omar Berrada, Gavin Bryars, Stuart Comer, DominiqueEddé, Fouad ElKoury, Simone Fattal, Joana Hadjithomas, Bruce Hainley, IsabellaHammad, Lamia Joreige, Abdellatif Laabi, Emily LaBarge, Quinn Latimer, EileenMiles, Edwin Nasr, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ariana Reines, Lynne Tillman, FawwazTraboulsi, Anne Waldman, Robert Wilson, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
