EVENTUALLY some stills from the video. I wasn’t sure whether to add them because of the public/private idea I was putting forward, but I feel that they don’t give away enough information when seen this small and as a still shot, so it’s ok!
There are four “scenes” all together, each lasting seven minutes and shown on a loop. I have only included two here.
Because to copy is to do nothing; it is to be the books being copied. It is to be this tiny protrusion of redoubled language, of discourse folded upon itself; this invisible existence transforms fleeting words into an enduring and distant murmur.
–Michel Foucault, “Fantasia of the Library,” Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, Selected Essays and Interviews.
Action interrupts contemplation.
