Tag Archives: Neue Galerie
Here we are at the culmination of this week’s build-up – drum-roll please! There is no place in the book I am communicating to you from – Kunstforum International Bd. 248/249 on documenta 14 – for the works that I have been alluding to located in the basement of the Neue Galerie in Kassel. There […]
Tomorrow will be the big reveal and you will finally understand where all of this week’s posts have been building towards. But for today, a hint of things to come; a staged pretext, as it were. The book whose pages I have been flitting within this week has been the Kunstforum International tome devoted to […]
If is beyond obvious to say that to reach the words in a book, it first has to be opened. Well, at least for living, human readers. Even though the shelves I haunt comprise of rows of closed tomes, one of my abilities as a library’s ghost is that I can see within them and […]
Beware! If you play at ghosts, you become one. – Anon., The Kabbalah quoted as the epitaph to Valeria Luiselli “Face in the Crowd”, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2014. Here is perhaps the most important observation that I have made since I became a library’s ghost: his so-called ‘living’ library, from which I direct his […]
As a library-ghost, I spend a considerable amount of time in my afterlife reflecting on life and death, not only my own, but also as part of the relationship between the books on these shelves I haunt. For example, and I can understand if you don’t believe me, but I feel a distinct shift from […]
In the museum or the university, the story remains the same. On the one hand, an institution’s strong physique is measured in outsized philanthropy and thick endowments, as administrators make public-facing boasts of rich collections and academic excellence. On the other hand, internal messaging is one of dispossession and precarity, from cuts and layoffs to […]