ADD TO MY LIBRARY VOL.II Bibliographic Data Flow ©christinamitrentse11

4 days before the installation at Departure Gallery work in progress

Add To My Library progressively expanded on the floor,lighten by individual light bookmarks.

Experimenting with various types of lighting creates an almost mystical ‘reading’.

There are still lighbookmarks awaiting to be installed ……

In the meantime…….. a new production of works has meticulusly derived from this process and is about to be Added to My Library.

What is the purpose of the book nowdays?

At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer……….for the last three years I attempt to re-contextualize books that become ‘significant objects’ not to be read, but experienced within the physical space.

Addressing books as ‘objects’ rather than sacred cultural artifacts.

Within an obsessive cultural context of hypertexts, virtual communication, the internet and the commodification of the book, intented through this expanded installation to encourage viewers to consider how we now address traditional modes of relaying knowledge, such as through the use of textbooks, encyclopedia and atlases.

I prompt viewers to explore ideas of materiality juxtaposed with new notions of accumulating and communicating knowledge.

BOOKMARKING PAGES

Further into ADD TO MY LIBRARY –What Is the Purpose of the Book today?

Looking at relating BOOK shows in galleries. This one at V&A takes a less-critical approach. In 2008 an exhibition at V&A has shown the ways in which the book has been treated by ‘selected’ leading artists of today and the recent past. Blood on Paper focused on new and contemporary work, and on books where the artist has been the driving force in conception and design. selected books which reveal both the creative process and the soul of the artist in question. Some are iconic works which established the genre of the livre d’artiste after the Second World War; others are surprises from artists who are best known for their work with other sorts of material. Formats and production methods vary enormously. Some works show the virtuosity of traditional ‘hot metal’ printing techniques, others take the commercially-produced book as the starting point of their statements, yet others produce stunning large-scale installations and sculptures.?……

Coming back to my Library ….the Floor installation has been Bookmarking similar artworks by contemporary masters and moves on adding light bookmarks for those who can not see …………

Antony Caros’ piece has been certainly influencial in producting MY SUPER BOOK…to be launced in early 2011. venue to be announced soon!!!

While working on the Add TO MY LIBRARY FLOOR PLAN pattern- i’ve received an invitation by Aeon Rose -Hive’s gallery communicator- to show one of my projects at HIVE-LA RUCHE event as part of the Open House and London Design Festival weekend 18th -19th September in London see : Open-City the architecture education organisation

www.open-city.org.uk

www.londondesignfestival.com see : Architecture on your bike.

The theme is Anarchitecture..! Such a nessesary statement for London. A mix of degraded/ abandoned buildings & uber commercial developments/ ‘Kapital’ ! this is an important idea to this event along with others ready to be explored!….

In many ways it well links up with what my view to floor plans and public libraries i am constructing at the moment as well as re-construction/arrangement of geometric motifs / designs / forms / collages etc cut into / from
inside/out of public libraries and building patterns. So…Anarchitecture……

I will be working on a large scale Street Wall Paper Poster based on my new Book Flags (sign /emblem)- FLAG I, FLAG II, FLAG III, to be desplayed as a street wall installation at the front of LA-RUCHE.(This will take the form of perfomative installation being desplayed live during the event!!

It could make an interesting counterpoint to the Maersk high techno tower building that faces the street. Here is the google street view .See >> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113045242097615568822.000488a0dda2597b9f544&ll=51.514418,-0.071111&spn=0.010616,0.019484&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.514503,-0.071198&panoid=XebKsQIoYk3nzK9mlrZpNQ&cbp=12,231.2,,0,-34.94

References regarding this project and its relationship to My street Poster Emblem.

Gordon Matta Clark -‘conical intersect’ link:

http://www.ubu.com/film/gmc_conical.html

http://arttorrents.blogspot.com/2007/08/gordon-mat…

GORDON MATTA CLARK:

Splitting, Bingo/Ninths, Substrait (Underground Dailies) (1974-1976)

http://www.ubu.com/film/gmc_splitting.html

GORDON MATTA CLARK: CITY SLIVERS http://www.ubu.com/film/gmc_slivers.html

And :the antwerpian ‘office baroque’. link >

Keep on adding into My Library

(2 weeks before the installation at the Departure gallery)

‘Process as Object’ -Constructing the Floor Plan

found image: from film Alexander the Great- library floor plan

found image : from Hirshorn Library

The Hirshhorn Museum Library, founded in 1969, is now administered by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL). It is a research collection devoted to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, video, and emerging art forms. The Library has books and related materials (exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, serials, and ephemeral material) from 1880 to the present, with an emphasis on artists in the Hirshhorn’s collection and on artists featured in the exhibition program.