The Library of Unread Books

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The Library of Unread Books

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The Library of Unread Books is a growing reference library that addresses concepts of the distribution, access and surplus of knowledge. The collection is home to over 700 titles.

Following an invitation to Chong and Staal to showcase the ongoing international project, the library occupied the Jameel Arts Centre lobby and featured unread books donated by individuals to this iteration of the project in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

This publication captures the ideas and reflections behind this ten-year-long project and includes a text by Heman Chong titled The Book of Drafts, an unpublished piece by art historian and curator Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes and a commission responding to the project by Sharjah-based writer and researcher Saira Ansari.

Softcover

118 pages

Dimensions: height 20 x width 13 x depth 1 cm

ISBN: 9789948350118

Publisher: Art Jameel

Published in 2019

Country of publication: United Arab Emirates

Contributors: Saira Ansari, Antonia Carver, Uns Kattan and Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

Designed by Kemistry Design, a creative studio based in Dubai

Translated by Ban Kattan

This item is eligible for international shipping.

Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing. His practice can be read as an imagining, interrogation and sometimes intervention into infrastructure as an everyday medium of politics.

Renée Staal co-founded The Library of Unread Books with Heman Chong in 2016 and has contributed to numerous artist-run projects in The Netherlands.

Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing. His practice can be read as an imagining, interrogation and sometimes intervention into infrastructure as an everyday medium of politics.

Renée Staal co-founded The Library of Unread Books with Heman Chong in 2016 and has contributed to numerous artist-run projects in The Netherlands.

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