No One's Witness

No One's Witness investigates the poetics of witness in queerly monstrous forms, exploding the boundaries between testifying to what one sees with one's very own eyes" and bearing witness to things and events beyond comprehension. In this work, Rachel Zolf deconstructs and reconfigures the last three lines of Romanian poet and Nazi holocaust survivor Paul Celan's poem "Aschenglorie" (Ashglory)- "No one / bears witness for the / witness"-word by word to investigate the poetic, ethico-political, and onto-epistemic limits of witnessing, whether in person or through literature and art"--