withdrawn

By entering a library, we identify an organised circuit of books, a sense of collection and archiving.
We have been drifting inside both the library and the book waiting for a contradictory or
disorganised action by a book in a sense and, in other sense, for particular samples of what could
be subtly investigated by many different people and through severals perspectives. There seems
to be an articulation from the two-dimensional space to become, subjectively, geographic elements
that will be explored in imaginative connections. Thus, it was possible to appropriate these twodimensional elements of a literary text to assemble references within a relational proposition. If, in
one hand, the books have been selected to be temporarily out of a previous collection, in the other
hand, we have transformed the book into a platform that is capable of constructing several
collections. Facing this other site of exploration, we could identify the book itself as the sample that
was selected to represent books, words, types, insertions, contents, writers, readers and the
infinitive collection of relationship between book and the books agent. These explorations took
place in Cambridge, a university-city that offered to us a specific field. All books returned to the
library circuit and will be borrowed by students with their new covers. Outside the library insertion,
we are looking forward to know how participants would receive a sample of a previous archive and
how it would provide a platform to the following interactive activities:
i.

library access
insertions through libraries' circuits, collections and archives. As being in a drift, the

participants will highlight a sample that, at the same time, will deconstruct a previous library
collection to construct new relations based on an image manipulation of the books content using a
printer. These manipulations illustrate a relation between texts as images, images as
communication, book as platform and library as specific site. Interestingly, these connections
modify the spaces and thus a book transforms into a space. Participants will explore the print
aesthetic and, disobediently, they will insert a new circuit of books' covers into the library.
materials: printer and A3 white paper.
ii. soire*
sharing knowledge as an invitation to experience a publication of books' contents. The
platform is the book, which was withdrawn from a library that faces contradictory relations and
seems to work together in these circuits: sharing books and restricting to general public. This is the
moment to publish loudly extracts, to turn public a private knowledge kept inside a book. There will
be some selected extracts but it is also an opportunity to get a book at the library or bring your
own.
*Possibly Friday evening with drinks and music. Logistic: tours around to read extracts traversing
the corridor.
iii. collaborative publication

creating connections. The participants choose a book extract which was of interest to them
to be scanned during the activities. These can become a draft to be published. This characteristic
seems to indicate how participants would identify their sources to be assembled. In a sense, as
anthropologists worried about subtle matters, the participants will be invited to subtly investigate
text, images, words and interpretations.
material: printer with built in photo-copier and scanner.
Note: As illustrated, we already did this process at Cambridge University libraries. Therefore, it
would be the moment to insert it in new fields and library spaces. Concerning this fact, we kindly
ask to have as a support space the V&A Library and also, if possible, to get in touch with the
librarians.
To whom is involved in the everyday life of the books,
Undoubtedly, this insertion in libraries is also a special acknowledgement to all those people that
are involved with the everyday life of the library. Among many movements inside this space, we are
together curating many particulars ways to construct a relation with spaces, either in the library, or
in the book. It's a pleasure to invite all those people to experience books in a different space and
discuss about these disobediences through the books' processes.
general materials:
printer (A3 paper size)
white paper
post-it
pencils
02 National Rail tickets Cambridge-London: 50