{"id":3545,"date":"2017-03-23T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=3545"},"modified":"2020-04-01T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:41:07","slug":"22-1-on-libraries","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/22-1-on-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"22.1 On Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an economic and cultural context in which public libraries are under threat widely,\u00a0On Libraries\u00a0<\/em>offers tangible evidence of the diverse interrelations between and interventions of artists and libraries which reveal the library as dynamic, shifting and contested spaces of creativity, subversion, refuge, labour, testimony, imagination, choreography, repetition, invitation, inhabitation, solitude and conviviality. Including contributions from Europe, America, Australia and Iran, the issue foregrounds the practices of ‘library performances’, including work which displays and disrupts in equal measure library forms, rituals and technologies; work which acknowledges and takes sustenance from the library as icon of safe space for reflection and intellectual pursuit; work which responds to the materiality of libraries, most particularly books and their para-texts, including marginalia, secret deposits and traces of singular readerly engagement. Performances\u00a0in\u00a0<\/em>libraries offer one lens through which to approach the question of \u2018What are libraries for in the 21st century?\u2019; and, further, \u2018What might libraries become?\u2019<\/p>\n

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The Walking Library\u2009: Mobilizing books, places, readers and reading<\/strong>
\nDeirdre (Dee) Heddon, Misha Myers<\/p>\n

Tales of Time and Space\u2009: Part-home, part-library and a fully functioning escape vehicle<\/strong>
\nLaura Mansfield<\/p>\n

My Life as a Book<\/strong>
\nMette Edvardsen<\/p>\n

A Structured Space for Reflection\u2009: A conversation about The Quiet Volume, a site-specific autoteatro performance for libraries<\/strong>
\nAnt Hampton, Tim Etchells<\/p>\n

Some Patterns of Current \/ A Choreographic Index (artists’ pages)<\/strong>
\nLucy Cash, Sheila Ghelani<\/p>\n

\u2018Educate a Woman and You Educate a Generation\u2019\u2009: Performing geographies of learning, the public library and a pre-school parents\u2019 book club<\/strong>
\nJoanne Norcup<\/p>\n

Performing Refuge\/Restoration\u2009: The role of libraries in the African American Community \u2013 Ferguson, Baltimore and Dorchester<\/strong>
\nMyron M. Beasley<\/p>\n

A Performing Library\u2009: Dario Fo\u2019s cultural manifesto<\/strong>
\nMarco Valleriani<\/p>\n

No Nudity, Ducks or Amateur Wrestling OR\u2009What happens when you give a live artist the keys to the library?<\/strong>
\nLiz Clarke<\/p>\n

The Library is Open!\u2009: Drag queen poetry at the Scottish Poetry Library, 28 January 2016<\/strong>
\nIain Morrison<\/p>\n

A Place Free of Judgement \u2013 A teenage takeover of libraries (\u2018Why Are You Here Teenager?\u2019) (artist\u2019s pages)<\/strong>
\n(Ju Row Farr) Blast Theory<\/p>\n

Curated Readings\u2009: Site-specific art and performance in libraries<\/strong>
\nPenelope Bartlau<\/p>\n

LADA\u2019s Study Room\u2009: A case study in five parts<\/strong>
\nLois Keidan, Marco Pustianaz, Mary Paterson, Tara Fatehi Irani, Tara Fatehi Irani<\/p>\n

Poor Traces of the Room\u2009: The Live Archive at the library<\/strong>
\nJoseph Dunne, Anna Makrzanowska<\/p>\n

A Beautiful Living Thing (artist\u2019s pages)<\/strong>
\nRoss Birrell<\/p>\n

Ecolibrary as Bing<\/strong>
\nChris Fremantle<\/p>\n

Anagnosis of Hysteria\u2009: Biblioth\u00e8que\/Amphith\u00e9\u00e2tre\/Shrine Charcot<\/strong>
\nGabriella Daris<\/p>\n

Library of Unfinished Texts<\/strong>
\nDiana Damian Martin<\/p>\n

Spivak_rub (artist\u2019s pages)<\/strong>
\nJessa Mary Mockridge<\/p>\n

Loving Memory\u2009: Anamnesis and hypomnesis<\/strong>
\nMischa Twitchin<\/p>\n

Sound Stakes (review)<\/strong>
\nElla Finer<\/p>\n\n\n