My librarian and I are taking a break from our daily book posts for Our Library of the Future: A Ghost’s Story. We’ll be back on January 2nd, 2022 and from then on we will continue selecting books from the library I haunt in preparation for the exhibition Whisper into a Hole at Hopkins Hall […]
I’ve spent all my life washing dishes And composing poems most sublime And this has lent me all of my life’s wisdom And made my temperament film and mild I watch the water flow and comprehend it Below my window – the people and the powers Whatever I don’t like I simply overrule it And […]
Intimacy is a vital ingredient for learning – especially when working within informal spaces. To learn from each other and be open to knowledge requires us to be vulnerable, to trust, and to be willing to actively listen openly. – Sepake Angiama ‘Intimacy’, in ‘aneducation documenta 14’, Archive Books: Berlin, 2018 I share these books […]
She could see ahead of her, way at the road’s end, the volcano named Fire. – Jane Bowles ‘A Guatemalan Idyll’, reprinted in South as a State of Mind No. 9 [documenta 14 #4] Fall/Winter 2017. Some books are bigger than others, especially in how they loom large in life, and at the intersection of […]
He turned, finally, to the book Moyra Davey published on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition for the 2018 Scotiabank Photography Award in 2018. It is the largest book by Davey he owns, like Index Cards an anthology of texts, but also a rich survey of the artist’s photographic and film work. While flicking through […]
The monument becomes a pretext for new forms of political action, based on fidelity to historical struggles but offering a stage for the future. In our times of growing fascism, neoliberal capitalist imperialism, and financial warfare, Iveković’s Monument to Revolution is both a cautionary reminder of the past, an object to be contested, and a material invocation. […]
You put this here – these artists, their books, and their titles next to each other – as a placeholder to return to. Can books be vessels for an intimacy to come? (the edge of this)
