What do you not handle with care?
Site-specific Installation (artist handbound books)
& Ongoing Performance
Goldsmiths College Library
& Ongoing Performance
Goldsmiths College Library
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I asked 100 individuals what do they not handle with care.
Each participant’s individual story is handbound into book by the artist,
and silently slotted in between books in a public library as little ‘care packages’.
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What sort of knowledge deserves to be 'public knowledge'? In a today’s culture with elevated levels of anxiety and mental distress, care work and wellness is often being undermined, or commoditized. There is a slow violence in forgetting about care, and I want to bring this care to the forefront, by exploring together with my participants how can care be a methodology, rather than an afterthought.
I asked 100 individuals what do they not handle with care.
Each participant’s individual story is handbound into book by the artist,
and silently slotted in between books in a public library as little ‘care packages’.
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What sort of knowledge deserves to be 'public knowledge'? In a today’s culture with elevated levels of anxiety and mental distress, care work and wellness is often being undermined, or commoditized. There is a slow violence in forgetting about care, and I want to bring this care to the forefront, by exploring together with my participants how can care be a methodology, rather than an afterthought.
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"Each book is so fragile and light, like a body on its own - a self-portrait preserving a precious piece of personality. There's something so beautiful about honouring someone's story by handbinding it into a book, and then being encountered in an unexpected impersonal, and usually stressful place like the library." |