Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine (Brussel : Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon)
V.1: Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde von Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Sonia Si Ahmed, 2016 / V.2: I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume by Mette Edvardsen, 2017 / V.3: Ik ben Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen geschreven door Maurice Williams door Wouter Krokaert / V.4: Een dag in 't jaar door Herman Gorter door Johan Sonnenschein, 2015 / V.5: I am Bartleby the scrivener by Herman Melville by Kristien Van den Brande, 2017 /V.6: Mon Songe d'après Monsieur Songe de Robert Pinget suivi de Sosie Songe, Vincent Dunoyer, 2016 / V.7: Verzamelde gedichten, Against the forgetting Selected poems by Hans Faverey by Bruno De Wachter, 2016 / V.8: Il fucile da caccia di Inoue Yasushi di Irena Radmanovic, 2020 / V.9: I am Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot, Sébastien Hendrickx, 2015 / V.10: Rêveries du promeneur solitaire de Jean-Jacques Rousseau de Sarah Ludi
The project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine starts as a group of people who dedicate themselves to memorizing a book of their choice. Together they form a library collection consisting of living books. The “books” pass their time in libraries reading, memorizing, talking to each other, going for walks outside, prepared to be read by a visitor. The readings take place as intimate one-to-one encounters where the “book” recites its content to the reader. Over time the project grew into a library collection of more than eighty living books in twelve different languages across Europe and beyond. The project developed into a bookshop, a publishing house and an exhibition format, and hosted workshops, lectures and talks and, eventually, a book. The publication brings together eighteen text contributions from artists and theoreticians with a varying degree of proximity to the project. Their reflections touch on memory and forgetting; on the practice of learning by heart and its corporeality; on reading, re-reading, reading aloud, reading for oneself and for others; on writing, re-writing and translating; on invisible and impossible literatures; on alternative temporalities and their respective economies; on archives, libraries, bodies and other sites for conservation; on the problems of authorship and originality; on immateriality and its discontents; on the equivocal borders between reality and fiction; and on the strange and unforeseeable dynamics of people and stories coming together, disseminating and unexpectedly crossing paths again. The second part of the book is a visual essay that documents the processes of memorizing, reading and re-writing. (source publisher)
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Keywords: Edvardsen, Mette