Another day; another post. But for this one, you get a glimpse into process. Yesterday he was digging deep into settler colonial foundation narratives on site at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Boston. As he often does when he reposts these posts on here on Instagram (‘New post on www(dot)minusplato(dot)com’, because a while ago […]
Libraries constantly shed… – Shubigi Rao ‘Articulating the Archive: An Imprecise Index’, in Zoe Butt (ed.) ‘Journey Beyond the Arrow’, Sharjah Art Foundation: Sharjah, 2019, -. 238. Zoe Butt Shubigi Rao Léuli Eshrāghi Phan Thảo Nguyên Mark Salvatus Lantian Xie Adriana Bustos Kidlat Tahimik Lisa Reihana Gudskul
It was fragile, and in need of conservation, but it was tougher than it looked – the book had been buried in the 1990s to save it from the destruction and depredation that was gutting libraries and archives during the Siege of Sarajevo, and had only recently been exhumed from the earth. – Shubigi Rao […]
This is a futile chronicle, but at the very least, I hope to point to that body, that corpus, that library, the book as collective humanity. – Shubigi Rao ‘Afterword’ from ‘Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, Volume 1 of V’, Rock Paper Fire, Singapore, 2016, p. IV