Title: The Booked, the Unbooked and the Unbookable
Artists: Michael Lee Hong Hwee in collaboration with Lee Chun Fung
Form: Installation
Medium: Books from Asia Art Archive, Mobile Fart Agency and Studio Bibliothèque
Size: 40 x 200 x 200 cm shelves (5 nos）
Year: 2008
Venue: Shop G10, Hollywood Ce
ntre, 233 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong
Event: A-Z, 26 Locations To Put Everything
Organiser: Asia Art Archive
Festival: October Contemporary 2008
City: Hong Kong
City: Hong Kong
Photo: han, unless otherwise stated
This installation explores instances when and where books are 'freed from function.' By studying, selecting from and combining the library collections of three Hong Kong-based art institutions, namely Asia Art Archive, Mobile Fart Agency and Studio Bibliothèque, this project is aimed at uncovering what is on the underside of a bookshop. Shuffle the bookshelves or the catalogue pages in anyway and the categories still cohere with the contents. No one system of categorisation is perfect, just as every apparent nonsystem has an inner logic. Don’t buy. Get lost. Enjoy.
This installation explores instances when and where books are 'freed from function.' By studying, selecting from and combining the library collections of three Hong Kong-based art institutions, namely Asia Art Archive, Mobile Fart Agency and Studio Bibliothèque, this project is aimed at uncovering what is on the underside of a bookshop. Shuffle the bookshelves or the catalogue pages in anyway and the categories still cohere with the contents. No one system of categorisation is perfect, just as every apparent nonsystem has an inner logic. Don’t buy. Get lost. Enjoy.
View from Possession Street
Installation text on shop's glass window
SECTION I:
BIBLIOPHILES-IN-RESIDENCE
Booklovers like to work in bookshops.
Booklovers like to live in bookshops.
SECTION II:
RESTROOM FOR THE DERANGED
Treat books with tender loving care.
Torture books with tender loving care.
SECTION III:
THE GARDEN OF PARATEXTUAL DELIGHTS
Books are for reading.
Books are for looking.
SECTION IV:
LOST LIBRARIES
It is easy to get lost in libraries.
It is hard to let go of lost libraries.
SECTION V:
TWOSOMES
Everyone has a favourite book.
Every book has a fateful other.
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