date> 2000

medium> site-specific installation with construction of abandoned books

exhibition> Tout le temps / Every Time: La Biennale de Montreal 2000, curated by Peggy Gale, 28 September-29 October 2000. Catalogue essay by Laura U. Marks (English - français)

description>
A site-specific installation for "Tout le temps / Every Time," la Biennale de Montréal 2000. A large quantity of books abondoned on site by the former tenant (a discount bookstore) was used to build two sets of grandstands facing each other across a small room, like an arena or a parliament. The steps/seats of one sides are blue, the other side of various colours. An overhead ledge above one set of stands houses a provisional and changing library of books separated out from the mass. The space becomes a place for reading and, in its oppositional formation, for discussion and debate. The remaining books are stacked loosely in the adjoining room as further raw material potentially to be added to the library or used for further building.