This book contains a collection of scans made by Google Books. While turning the page a accidental scan was made and now shows an unexpected human touch of Google.
The book that disappears – a book which turns black and therefore invisible within 20 minutes of opening it. Fantastic project!
Reading The Libraries of Thought
and Imagination: An Anthology of Bookshelves by Alex Finlay and Colin Sackett I came across the fantastic work of Sigurdur Gudmundsson.
Do you ever have cold arms or hands when reading in bed? Andrea Ayala Closa developed a sleeved blanket for Happiness In Bed.
The title of the show Trough the Forest is taken from an English translation of the story Lenz by the German Romantic author Georg Büchner. Reading this translation Rodney Graham discovered a repetition of the sentence ‘Through the forest’ from one page to another.
The Malady of Writing – A project on text and speculative imagination is an exhibition presented at the MACBA Study Center of a collection of books, opuscula, pamphlets and single pages written by artists.
Traducing Ruddle is the fifth in a series of ‘fake’ newspapers by Mark Manders. Using a nonsensical combination of English words, Traducing Ruddle creates a pretense of legibility that dissolves upon closer inspection.
The Billboard Book book by Jonathan Monk harks back to other times. It is fabricated from the billboard project announcing its publication. It refers to itself in the natty text that Monk devised, invoking every last piece of technical detail constituting its manufacture.
Gargarin is an international periodical publishing special and unpublished writings by artists. The editorial layout is based on John Baldessari’s quote ‘Talking about art simply is not art. Talk can be art, but then it is not talking about art’.
What is the place/site of reading to the reading? See me reading Derrida in Rhyolite Ghost Town, Death Valley and Freud in front of the Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley.
Installation artist Chris Cobb’s There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World involved re-classifying the books at San Francisco’s Mission District’s Adobe Books by colour. Together with a team of 16 volunteers he spent an entire night re-arranging all the 20000 books to create a continuous spectrum. that the artist has neither added nor taken away anything in the bookstore, but merely re-arranged what was already there.
The group exhibition and catalogue For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn’t There celebrates the experience of curiosity and speculation as a form of knowledge.
In the exhibition Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Berlin, conceptual artist Karin Sander brings together works by 566 Berlin-based artists at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. The project surprises the visitor with a seemingly empty exhibition space.
In 2006, on a trip to Lisbon, I stumbled across Book Cell , a piece by Matej Kren, exhibited in the Centro de Arte Moderna. He piled up thousands of books, creating an architectonic structure where we are invited to step inside.
In The Infinite Library “the book objects (…) are each made from pages of existing books removed from their bindings and rebound as one.
The London Paper Library was a one-day circulating library on the Circle Line. Prompted by the end of the London paper, the idea was to replace the free newspaper with books.
The Chicago Underground Library is new model for open, location-specific archiving of independent and small press media.
The Reanimation Library hosts a collection of books fallen out of mainstream circulation. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales and throw-away piles across the country.
Books published by the Underground Library in New York have a unique way of distribution and circulation. Once read, members of the library sign and pass the book to someone who they think will like it. This cycle repeats itself indefinitely.
The exhibition The Grand Plasto-Baader-Books at Kaleid editions references the Dada artist Johannes Baader’s text and collage tower installation Das Grosse Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama.
“Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.”
Franz Kafka, Diary, January 24, 1922
Fallen Books, a project by Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S Davidson, brings together images of toppled books housed in seismically active libraries.
The Buchstaben Museum is an entire museum dedicated to the preservation of letters and characters, industrial signs old and new.
