Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine – A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books<\/p>\n
Texts by Mette Edvardsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Johan Sonnenschein, Bruno De Wachter, S\u00e9bastien Hendrickx, Lizzie Thomson, S\u00e9bastien Hendrickx, Victoria P\u00e9rez Royo, Jon Refsdal Moe, Bojana Cveji\u0107, Melanie Fieldseth, Jeroen Peeters, Lara Khalidi, Emiliano Battista, Thomas B\u00eerzan, Susanne Christensen, Olivia Fairweather, Laurence Rassel<\/p>\n
The project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine starts as a group of people who dedicate themselves to memorizing a book of their choice. Together they form a library collection consisting of living books. The \u201cbooks\u201d pass their time in libraries reading, memorizing, talking to each other, going for walks outside, prepared to be read by a visitor. The readings take place as intimate one-to-one encounters where the \u201cbook\u201d recites its content to the reader. Over time the project grew into a library collection of more than eighty living books in twelve different languages across Europe and beyond. The project developed into a bookshop, a publishing house and an exhibition format, and hosted workshops, lectures and talks and, eventually, a book. The publication brings together eighteen text contributions from artists and theoreticians with a varying degree of proximity to the project. Their reflections touch on memory and forgetting; on the practice of learning by heart and its corporeality; on reading, re-reading, reading aloud, reading for oneself and for others; on writing, re-writing and translating; on invisible and impossible literatures; on alternative temporalities and their respective economies; on archives, libraries, bodies and other sites for conservation; on the problems of authorship and originality; on immateriality and its discontents; on the equivocal borders between reality and fiction; and on the strange and unforeseeable dynamics of people and stories coming together, disseminating and unexpectedly crossing paths again. The second part of the book is a visual essay that documents the processes of memorizing, reading and re-writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Authors:<\/strong> edited by Mette Edvardsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Victoria P\u00e9rez Royo & Runa Borch Skolseg Softcover:<\/strong> 536 pages
\nPublishers:<\/strong> Mousse Publishing & osloBIENNALEN\u00a0 (2019)<\/p>\n
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English
\nISBN13:<\/strong> 978 8 269 02042 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16961,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[135,227,219,139],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15135","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-english-en","7":"product_cat-essays-en","8":"product_cat-literature-en","9":"product_cat-work-process-en","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n