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The Librarians
is a series of 8 video portraits concerned with the personal, sometimes unintentional collections and libraries of people working in the arts. The project looks at how individual collections and selections processes and by extension the design and organisation of personal environments reflect and relate to someone’s wider practice. As a sequence the portraits form a collection in their own right with the notion of collecting becoming increasingly complex while relationships and connections develop between individuals and their ideas.
the Librarians was originally commissioned by Grizedale Arts for Afoundation to be screened as part of agrifashionista.tv
The Librarians, video installation with 8 monitors, Nought to Sixty, ICA, London, 2008
photos: Benedict Johnson
Tom McCarthy, London
Isabel Waidner, London
Adam Sutherland, Grizedale
other librarians are: MIchael Leslie (Munich), Lorenza Boisi (Milan), Rebecca Bligh (London), Shaun Pubis (London), Pablo Bronstein (London)
production: michael smythe
commissioned by Grizedale Arts and Afoundation
edited by Anne Monnehay and guestroom