Book by Book - A Portable English and French Library for the Art Accademy in Geneva, 1996 -1998,
installation view:
Book by Book - A Portable English and French Library for the Art Accademy in Geneva, 1996 -98
approximately 50 books bought for the school library, stamped.
Book by Book, Geneva,
Photographs 20 x 24 inches,
video
description:
For a period of 2 years I was invited as an associate professor at the Art Academy in Geneva, formerly called ESAV. I had to be there six weeks a year for one week. This time I used to read with students books I was bringing to the school and integrating it to the library. All discussions were recorded on video and partially photographed. The photographs are entitled "book by book" and were presented at the Centre of Photography in Geneva in 2000 together with the videos and with the books the library lent us for the time of this exhibitions. All books were stamped with the title of this invisible, immaterial piece that belongs to nobody since the library is only in possession of the books and not of the art work. I am in possession of the art works but not in possession of the books - the material basis of this art work.
partial list:
Book by Book - A Portable English and French Library for the Art Accademy in Geneva, 1996 -98
Library for the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel, GenevaAshcroft,
Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Post-Colonial Studies
Reader, London: Routledge, 1995
Balibar, Etienne, La crainte des masses: politique et philosophie avant
et après Marx, Paris: Galilée, 1996
Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity,
London: Routledge, 1990 [Thinking Gender. Philosophy/Women's Studies]
Clastres, Pierre, Rescherches d'anthropologie politique, Paris: Seuil,
1980 [Recherches anthropologiques]
Clastres, Pierre, La société contre l'état: recherches
d'anthropologie politique, Paris: Edition de Minuit, 1996
Clifford, James, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth
Century, London: Harvard University Press, 1997
During, Simon, ed., The Cultural Studies Reader, London and New York:
Routledge, 1995
Enloe, Cynthia H., The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the
Cold War, London: University of California Press, 1993
Fanon, Frantz, Les damnés de la terre, Paris: Gallimard, 1995 [Folio.
Actuel; 25]
Fanon, Frantz, Peau noire, masques blancs, Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1995
[Points. Essais; 26]
Foster, Hal, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the
Century, [Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1996
Foucault, Michel, Histoire de la sexualité, vol. 1 La volonté
de savoir, Paris: Gallimard, [1976]
Ganahl, Rainer, Erziehungskomplex = Educational Complex: Exposition EA
Generali Foundation, Wien, 30 January¬-4 June 1997
Ganahl, Rainer, ed., Imported: A Reading Seminar/A Project Edited by Rainer
Ganahl, New York: Semiotext(e), 1998 [what does it mean (Semiotext(e);
18?)
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed., “Race,” Writing, and Difference,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986
Gelder, Ken, and Sarah Thornton, eds., The Subcultures Reader, London:
Routledge, 1996 [CLIO 1997]
Golding, Sue, author-ed., The Eight Technologies of Otherness, London:
Routledge, 1997
Grosz, Elizabeth A., and Elspeth Probyn, eds., Sexy Bodies: The Strange
Carnalities of Feminism, London: Routledge, 1995
Halimi, Serge, Les nouveaux chiens de garde, 13th ed., Paris: Liber, 1997
Haraway, Donna Jeanne, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse:
Feminism and Technoscience, with paintings by Lynn M. Randolph, New York:
Routledge, 1997
Harris, Steven, and Deborah Berke, eds., Architecture of the Everyday,
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997
Harris, Wendell V., ed., Beyond Poststructuralism: The Speculations of
Theory and the Experience of Reading, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1997 [Literary theory]
Harrison, Taylor, Sarah Projansky, Kent A. Ono, and Elyce Rae Helford,
eds., Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek, Oxford: Westview
Press, 1996 [Film Studies]
Hooks, Bell, Killing Rage: Ending Racism, New York, 1996 [CLIO says 1995]
Kester, Grant H., ed., Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from
Afterimage, Durham (NC) and London: Duke University Press, 1998 [Art Criticism]
Koolhaas, Rem, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan,
New York: Monacelli Press, 1994
Kristeva, Julia, Sens et non-sens de la révolte (discourse direct??),
Pouvoirs et limites de la psychanalyse 1, Paris: Fayard, 1996
Lacan, Jacques, Ecrits, Paris: Seuil, 1996 [Le Champ freudien]
Lacan, Jacques, Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école
freudienne, ed. Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose, London: W. W. Norton,
1985
Lefebvre, Henri, La production de l'espace, Paris: Anthropos, 1986 [Espaces
et sociétés]
Lefebvre, Henri, Critique de la vie quotidienne: 1 ??: Introduction ??,
2nd ed., Paris, L'Arche, 1977 [Le sens de la marche]
Leiris, Michel, L'Afrique fantôme, Paris: Gallimard, 1995 [Tel;
125]
Leiris, Michel, L'âge d'homme; précédé de De
la littéerature considérée comme une tauromachie
??punc., Paris: Gallimard, 1973 [Folio; 435]
Leiris, Michel, Langage tangage ou Ce que les mots me disent, Paris: Gallimard,
1995 [L'imaginaire: 337]
Maglin, Nan Bauer, and Donna Perry, eds., “Good Girls”/“Bad
Girls”: Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties, New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1996
Malos, Ellen, ed., The Politics of Housework, Glos ?? [Cheltenhan]: New
Clarion, 1995
