Footage by Allison Brzezinski
Presented as part of the Itinerant festival, at PS 69 in Queens, November 21st, 2015.
Also performed as part of the EOArts Performance Art Series, at Rabbithole Gallery in DUMBO, May 27th, 2016.
Footage by Allison Brzezinski
A man finds that his precious library begins to fall to pieces in his hands. Unable to stem this rapid decay, he undertakes the arduous task of copying its contents onto fresh pages and bind new books. He completes this, attempting to preserve as much as he can from the remnants, only to discover that his newly constructed tome immediately begins this same process of wasting away. And on and on he continues, trying to preserve the sense in the crumbling pages.
Footage by Allison Brzezinski
“…I suspect that the human species—the unique species—is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.”
“The Library of Babel”, Jorge Luis Borges