Anouk Kruithof likes to "invent new things out of fragments of the past"So it shouldn't be much of a surprise that the book is at the center of her work. Enclosed Content Chatting Away In The Colour Invisibility is an installation that reinvents itself everytime it appears. Comprised of about 3,500 books, many published in the old East Germany, the wall changes each time it is constructed. Using the size of the books and the colored page ends as her palette Kruithof builds these unique walls where books become colored bricks.Each time the wall is installed it is accompanied by a video loop...
remembering futurism
From Grant Snider of Incidental Comics fame comes a new series for Medium called "Who Needs Art?" First up, remembering futurism.Previously on Book Patrol:Day Jobs of the PoetsPerformance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers and more from Grant Snider
Occupy-style Library Rises in Istanbul
Taksim Gezi Park is the Zuccotti Park of Istanbul. It has quickly become the nerve center for the protesters. In true Occupy-fashion a library has come together in less than a week to serve the faithful.Fingers crossed they don't meet the same end.Images via Onedio and Hurriyet Previously on Book Patrol:The Life and Death of the Great American People's LibraryBookish signs of the OWS movementThe Needs of the Occupy Wall Street LibraryProtest Library
Let the Books Fall Where They May: Seattle Public Library Breaks Book Domino Record
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Np450xMSncE[/youtube] 2131 Books 27 Volunteers 112 Slices of Pizza and after seven hours and five tries - 1 world record. Congratulations to all involved. Seattle Public Library Press Release
A trip with Vladimir Kush
Pillow BookRussian artist Vladimir Kush is a one man surrealism factory. With four of his own galleries in the U.S. and more coming around the globe you know he paints a lot. Fortunately for us, the book is well represented in his portfolio.Here is what Kush has to say on the subject:BOOK is a metaphor for the history of human life. We use the analogy of the book when talking about a significant event in our lives, "one more page is written." For instance, when we mention man’s first flight into the cosmos or to the moon, we say, "one...