Library Tour

XML

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI19-20221102

an attempt to familiarize with ,organize/classify the XML library. Stephen and Cara documented the whole process of the game by writing an instant script while the rest were playing the library. We used our cards and we perfomed  the actions of fermenting, cutting, grafting, gleaning in the XML context individually and then in groups of 2 or 3. We piled the zines, we colour-coded, we found the duplicates .

"Susan shuffles the non-empty cards, then deals four to each player (...)

Back to the game, we are cutting everything roughly a6 size out of the library. Everyone explores the shelves to find books/zines of this size.(...)Ada starts to do this by removing books and putting them in a different place. Aglaia suggests a similar method. "Pretend you are making kimchi or sauerkraut" Ada suggests. "Move shit around". Susan finds some very old dusty books, and is looking at them before puting them in order. Bobi is mostly confused, because she is trying to ferment a lot of books. Ada is sorting things by colour. Cara is breaking things down by placing them carefully on the table where she can read them. Aglaia and Ada are starting to collaborate because they are both organising by colour. Cara joins in too, and moves some books from her table collection into the blue and red shelves. Susan finds an exciting closed package that she wants to open. It says "Marginal Conversations Workshop" (...)

"Stephen is typing endlessly" says Susan (...)

Ada says the biggest outcome is that we learned we can apply these cards to a lot of things."

**photo of the XML game should be added

link of the pad https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI19-20221102