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High ResolutionI knew a kid in college who wanted so desperately to produce a book that he couldn’t stand the sight of their spines. He stacked them—ten or so brown and black books, library hardcovers—in his dorm room, titles to the wall, lips facing forward. He didn’t really buy books, either—at least I don’t recall that he did—but he never passed a bookstore without entering to read. These same stores have since displayed his books in their windows. (Read More)
Source: Paris Review February 8, 2012 | by Francesca Mari
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High ResolutionThe UnWaste bookcase, a collaboration between architect Ben Milbourne (Bild Architecture), eco-designer Leyla Acaroglu (Eco Innovators) and specialist furniture designer David Waterworth (Against the Grain); is the inventive response to a challenging brief and an adventurous client, resulting in a sustainably designed full-wall rotating library.
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The Bristol Art Library was created in 1998 to protest the closing of the Bristol Art Library in England. It is a fully functioning lending library housed in a small wooden cabinet. Annabel Other, Head Librarian, travels around the world showing the library, lending books, and developing the library’s collection. Each summer she participates in the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts where she temporarily hires 5 library assistants. The Bristol Art Library has issues over 30,000 library cards to its members worldwide. The Friends of the Bristol Art Library group issues a newsletter annually.
I read about The Bristol Art Library in The Bonefolder: an e-journal for the bookbinder and book artists Volume 7, 2011.
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Brooklyn Art Library: A physical extension of ArtHouse. The library is the permanent home of Art House Co-op’s Sketchbook Project. Sketchbooks from all around the world are cataloged individually so you can check out specific artists, locations, or years. Open from noon to 8 PM everyday at 103A N. 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
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Repurposed phone booth library in NYC by architect John Locke
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The Library as Incubator Project
The Library as Incubator Project was created by Erinn Batykefer, Laura Damon-Moore, and Christina Endres, three graduate students at the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies.The Project highlights the ways that libraries and artists can work together and features:- Visual artists, performing artists, and writers who use libraries in their communities for inspiration, information, and as gallery space
- Collections, libraries and library staff that incubate the arts, and the ways that artists can use them effectively
- Free-to-share resources for librarians looking to incubate the arts at their libraries
- Ideas for artists looking to connect with their communities through library programming
At a time in which both libraries and arts organizations are often having to do more with less, it makes sense for these two parts of our culture to support each other. The Library as Incubator Project calls attention to one of the many reasons libraries are important to our communities and our culture, and provides a dynamic online forum for sharing ideas.
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Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Print/Out, Print Studio (MoMA) is an interactive space that explores the evolution of artistic practices relating to the medium of print. The studio offers a series of drop-in workshops, lectures, and events that emphasize accessible and sustainable models for the production and dissemination of ideas. Drawing from resources such as theReanimation Library (based in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn)—a collection of discarded books acquired for their visual content—and a variety of print techniques, participants are invited to experiment with and manipulate images and text. Artist- and educator-led activities highlight the ways in which new digital technologies incorporate traditional printing practices, reimagining the role of print in contemporary visual culture. -
Little Free Library in action
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Angela Driscoll is a New Orleans-based multi-discipline artist and Loyola graduate, co-founder of SIFT and member of Antenna Gallery.
In the above work, Score of LOC Call Numbers 2008, she explores patterns and information organization/categorization through visual and audio cues.
(via danholepond)
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Mysterious paper sculptures
In mid-November, someone at the Scottish Poetry Library spotted a fresh, handwritten entry in the guest book, which said “I’ve left a little something for you,” at the shelf marked “Women’s Anthologies X.” When they went to check, there were three objects on the shelf. The first, a cap that could fit on a small head, was fashioned to look like a wren, head pointing forward, the back a puffed up haze of feathers.
The feathers, as documented by photographer Chris Scott, are exquisitely fashioned….then alongside the cap, was a pair of gloves with the pale markings of a bumble bee. And, finally, alongside the cap and gloves, whoever it is that makes these things, left an explanatory note, which revealed first, that she is a woman, (“Some even thought it was a ‘he’!…As if!”), that she is not, as many thought, an artist who specializes in sculpting books (“this was the first time”), that these sculptures were thank you gestures “in support of special places,” and that she had no intention of revealing her identity and anyway, newspaper readers across Edinburgh were happy “not to know…which was the point, really.” (Via NPR)
