'Interlude: The reader's traces.' by Mariana Castillo Deball is now available via www.janvaneyck.nl.


Launched on Thursday 21 April, 20:00 hrs, at the Stedelijk Museum CS.

Speakers included:

K. Schippers

Steve Rushton

Microfilm DJ Manuel Raeder

Ian Monk

Paul Elliman

Mariana Castillo Deball


Poster and book design by Manuel Raeder for 'Interlude: The reader's traces.' a project by Mariana Castillo Deball with contributions by: Hubert Czerepok, Paul Elliman,

Dario Gamboni, Raimundas Malasauskas, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Peter Piller, Manuel Raeder, Steve Rushton and Enrique Vila-Matas.


Books in libraries are public items; many different people have read the same copy. Each reader leaves its own traces and marks: a piece of paper used to separate the pages

in the book, a note, a train ticket; they become unresolved texts, hints to be disclosed. The discovery of these traces works as an opening up, occupying an intermediate space

or an iterative time. Excess or residues, are remains of an event that implies a deficit or a gap. Traces of an original experience, they displace this experience, as a point of

origin for subsequent narratives around it.These interruptions suspend the continuous accumulation of knowledge, interrupt its slow development, and force to enter a new

time, cut it from its original motivations. For one moment the database structure of the library and the narrative experience of reading come together. Made possible with the

support of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands.


The publication about the whole project, can be ordered via www.janvaneyck.nl.

 
 

 

 
 

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