Cette publication documente un projet inspiré de l'ouvrage Fahrenheit
451, dans lequel des interprètes mémorisent un livre de leur
choix, constituant ainsi une bibliothèque vivante consultable
par des visiteurs.
The project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine starts as a group of people who dedicate themselves to memorizing a book
of their choice. Together they form a library collection consisting of
living books. The "books" pass their time in libraries reading,
memorizing, talking to each other, going for walks outside, prepared to be
read by a visitor. The readings take place as intimate one-to-one
encounters where the "book" recites its content to the reader. Over time
the project grew into a library collection of more than eighty living
books in twelve different languages across Europe and beyond. The project
developed into a bookshop, a publishing house and an exhibition format,
and hosted workshops, lectures and talks and, eventually, a book. The
publication brings together eighteen text contributions from artists and
theoreticians with a varying degree of proximity to the project. Their
reflections touch on memory and forgetting; on the practice of learning by
heart and its corporeality; on reading, re-reading, reading aloud, reading
for oneself and for others; on writing, re-writing and translating; on
invisible and impossible literatures; on alternative temporalities and
their respective economies; on archives, libraries, bodies and
other sites for conservation; on the problems of authorship and
originality; on immateriality and its discontents; on the equivocal
borders between reality and fiction; and on the strange and unforeseeable
dynamics of people and stories coming together, disseminating and
unexpectedly crossing paths again. The second part of the book is a visual
essay that documents the processes of memorizing, reading and re-writing.
Edité par
Mette Edvardsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Victoria Pérez Royo,
Runa Borch Skolseg.
Textes de Mette Edvardsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Johan Sonnenschein,
Bruno De Wachter, Sébastien Hendrickx, Lizzie Thomson, Sébastien
Hendrickx, Victoria Pérez Royo, Jon Refsdal Moe,
Bojana Cvejić, Melanie
Fieldseth, Jeroen Peeters, Lara Khalidi, Emiliano Battista, Thomas Bîrzan,
Susanne Christensen, Olivia Fairweather, Laurence Rassel.
paru en décembre 2019
édition anglaise
17 x 22,5 cm (broché)
536 pages (ill. coul. et ill. n&b)
22.00 €
ISBN : 978-88-6749-387-6
EAN : 9788867493876
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