Sorted Books
December 8, 2008
Another example of transforming books: The wonderful Sorted Books project by the California-born artist Nina Katchadourian.
It ” has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from. Taken as a whole, the clusters from each sorting aim to examine that particular library’s focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies — a cross-section of that library’s holdings.”
What a creative idea!
Also check out her Map projects. Actually look through her whole website, all her works are very unique and interesting and showcase her extreme creativity. For example the story of Chloe (under the Confused Animals) or the Mended spiderwebs (featured here before) or Finlnds unnamed islands.
March 27, 2009 at 2:03 pm
[...] unlikely interventions, translations and “improvements.” One of her ongoing projects is about arranging books, which she exhibit at the Tang and at [...]