Fantasies of the Library - Etienne Turpin (ed.), Anne-Sophie Springer (ed.)

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Abstract

"The intercalations: paginated exhibition series is an experimental foray exploring the structure of the book as a potential curatorial space. As the reader-as-exhibition-viewer moves through the book-as-exhibition, she discovers that the erratic intercalations of the Anthropocene invite new forms of literacy, visuality, inquiry, and speculation that are, in the words of Clarice Lispector, less promiscuous than they are kaleidoscopic."

"Fantasies of the Library is a sequence of pages wherein the reader-as-exhibition- viewer learns—rather surprisingly, but with growing conviction—that the library is not only a curatorial space, but that its bibliological imaginary is also a fertile territory for the exploration of consequential paginated affairs."