Eric van Hove, ‘Exonomie’ (2010)
A recomposition of an original bookshelf (Section 2A) which disappeared some 40 years ago during the splitting of the Universiteit Leuven following the franco-dutch linguistic separatist movement in Belgium in 1971.
1000 borrowed books from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) and 1000 books borrowed from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL).
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Also tagged action, belgium, collection, DIY, eric van hove, found, installation, katholieke universiteit, language, leuven, library, linguistic, politics, romance, sculpture, separatist, text, unite, unity, université catholique, university, unknown
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Job Koelewijn, ‘Relief 25 march 2009 – 6 jan 2012’ (2012)
Every day, for 45 minutes, Job Koelewijn read aloud a book, recording his voice on cassette tapes, creating columns whose height corresponds to the length and complexity of the book.
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Also tagged audio, cassette, collection, columns, DIY, holland, job koelewijn, netherlands, order, reading, romance, sculpture, sound, text, unknown, voice
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Bethan Huws, Untitled (Do you think I should order …) (2013)
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Also tagged alphabet, bethan huws, black, DIY, fun, joke, order, pun, system, text, unknown, wales, white
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Carol Bove, ‘Vague Pure Affection’ (2012)
In Vague Pure Affection (2012), books, photographs, found objects, and small sculptures allude to drug culture and the expanded consciousness that many hoped to achieve through the use of psychedelics. However, Bove has drawn the work’s title from a volume that does not appear on the shelves: the 1901 Theosophist treatise Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. This text, which outlines the shapes and colors of auras associated with various mental states, greatly influenced the invention of abstract painting by Vasily Kandinsky and others.
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Also tagged America, associations, Carol Bove, collection, culture, DIY, drugs, found, furniture, installation, literature, objects, photographs, psychedelics, romance, sculpture, shelf, shelves, text, unknown, wood
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Barbara Bloom, ‘Corner (Library)’ (1986)
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Also tagged american, architecture, Barbara Bloom, border, collage, collection, colors, contrast, corner, dark, divide, end, found, framed, library, light, limit, mood, photograph, photohraph, red, romance, unknown, wall
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Eric Baudelaire, ‘Everything is political (I)’ (2011)
39 books and 39 recordings of the final sentences of each book.
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Also tagged audio, collection, DIY, Eric Baudelaire, everything, final sentences, found, france, fun, performance, political, reading, recording, romance, sound, spoken, stack, text, unfinished business, unknown, words
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The Penguin donkey bookcase, from 1939, by Egon Riss.
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Also tagged animal, architecture, austrian, bearing, body, bookcase, carrying, collection, curved, DIY, donkey, egon riss, isokon, london, movement, nature, penguin, scotland, scottish, sculpture, shelf, small, support, wood
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Job Koelewijn, ‘Untitled (Lemniscaat)’ (2006)
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Also tagged amsterdam, architecture, case, collection, design, forever, infinity, job koelewijn, knowledge, letters, literature, mental, movement, netherlands, romance, rounded, sculpture, shelf, space, spiral, text, unknown, wooden
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‘Mrs Dalloway : Virginia Woolf’ (2014)
‘The Possibility of An Island : Michel Houellebecq’ (2013)
‘The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea : Yukio Mishima’ (2013)
Part of an ongoing series of work by Heman Chong
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Also tagged collection, content, covers, grace, heman chong, island, michel houellebecq, mrs dalloway, paintings, possibility, reading, romance, sailor, sea, text, unknown, virginia woolf, wall, yukio mishima
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