The project The Book to Come is developed as part of Corpus, network for performance practice, in collaboration with book designer Filiep Tacq between 2015 and 2017. It is based on five books by Marcel Broodthaers, which the artist conceived as autonomous artworks, and aims to explore the book as a living entity. A book is made up of printed sheets of paper bound into a volume, and is a stable object, not inert matter; something living, a place for producing lived experience. It holds spaces, times and movements waiting to be activated.
What first began as a reading group then became a study group. Four artists from this group were invited to produce something which would set up a dialogue between their work and the content of the reading sessions, and with the idea of the book as an autonomous work of art.
A space of seventy-two years separates Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le…
With this session, I propose a reading of Her Majesty Sylvia M., a book made using random phrases from wall…
I remember when I was a child and would choose books for their formats rather than their content, but how…
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Shipwreck on the Basque coast (c. 1890.Bermeo Municipal Archive). This session of The Book to Come is a journey…
Using Marcel Broodthaers’ book Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1969) as her starting point, Amaia…
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Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolirá le hazard was published posthumously in 1914…
This session will consider possible relationships between film, books and text. It will be vertebrated around Stéphane Mallarmé’s…
To look at a book slowly and carefully turns the object to be read into an object of study, and…