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aMAZEme: The Ultimate Book Labyrinth

The Craigslist ad by the Brazilian artists' Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo asked for volunteers to help build a maze of books for the London 2012 Festival, a 'Cultural Olympiad' being held during the Olympic games.The parameters were simple enough: "walls of up to 3 meters high will be built from 250,000 books to create a maze of more than 300 meters in length!"But mind you this not an ordinary book assemblage but "an art project that unites literature, performance, installation, image and cinema." whose conceptual design is attributed to Jorge Luis Borge's fingerprint! By participating in the installation, the audience...

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