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Coerente con la sua vena sperimentale, Quartz Studio di Torino presenta (fino all’11 gennaio 2020), per la prima volta in Italia, The Annotated Reader, la pubblicazione-mostra, o mostra-pubblicazione, che raccoglie 281 reazioni creative e personali ad un testo scelto.
Ryan Gander e Jonathan P. Watts, curatori del progetto, hanno invitato artisti, designer, scrittori, fondatori di enti, musicisti ecc. a immaginare di aver perso l’ultimo treno del giorno.
Partendo dalla domanda: “Quale testo vorresti che ti tenesse compagnia durante la notte?” hanno chiesto di proporne uno corredato da annotazioni e commenti personali. Gli oltre 200 contributi che abbracciano gli argomenti più svariati, fra cui quelli di Marina Abramović, Art & Language, Paul Clinton, Tom Godfrey, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Alistair Hudson e Hans Ulrich Obrist, offrono un ulteriore livello di lettura grazie alle annotazioni, rendendo ciascun testo un esemplare unico, nonché un documento storico dei nostri tempi.
Il progetto non profit ha la missione di creare una risorsa formativa libera e accessibile, da usare sia come strumento d’insegnamento per le generazioni future, sia come archivio dei ricordi personali e dei punti di vista unici dei numerosi e autorevoli esponenti della società contemporanea che hanno collaborato. Alcuni testi trasformano il modo di pensare, altri sono affidabili mantra, altri ancora rivelano passioni e interessi profondi per generi e temi disparati. Come Art in Theory 1900-2000 di Harrison e Wood o Whole Earth Catalogue (“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish”) di Stewart Brand, THE ANNOTATED READER si propone come corso di studi, indice ed etica. La mostra prevede che ciascun contributo sia stampato in una tiratura di cento copie e sistemato in espositori da parete affinché i visitatori possano creare il proprio ANNOTATED READER. Inoltre da un distributore automatico sarà possibile acquistare chiavette USB, al prezzo di costo di 5 euro, che contengono tutti i contributi da stampare o leggere a video. (Da comunicato stampa)
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Quartz Studio presents – untill January 11, 2020 – for the first time in Italy, The Annotated Reader — a publication-as-exhibition and exhibition-as-publication featuring 281 creative and personal responses on a chosen piece of writing. Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts invited a range of people, encompassing contemporary artists, designers, writers, institutional founders, musicians and so on – to imagine they’ve missed the last train. “Is there one piece of writing that you would want with you for company in the small hours?” With this in mind, Gander and Watts asked people to submit a text with personal annotations and notes made directly onto it. With over 200 contributions collected across a range of subjects, including Marina Abramović, Art & Language, Paul Clinton, Tom Godfrey, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Alistair Hudson and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the annotation adds a further layer — making each piece unique and a historic record of our current times.
As a non-profit project, the mission was to create an free and accessible educational resource that can be used as both a teaching aid for future generations alongside being an archive that captures personal mementos and unique perspectives from a variety of contributors that are at the forefront of our contemporary society. Some texts transform thinking, some texts are a mantra one relies on, others bring out significant passions and interests relating to a multitude of genres and subjects. Like Harrison and Wood’s Art in Theory 1900-2000 or Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalogue (‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’), in totality THE ANNOTATED READER will be a curriculum, an index and an ethics.
As part of the exhibition, each of the contributions are printed in a run of 100 and exhibited as stacks hanging from the walls. Visitors to the exhibition are able to compile their own ‘ANNOTATED READER. In addition, a vending machine distributes USBs’ containing the entire ream of submissions at the cost price of 5 euro, with the ability to either be printed or read digitally. (Press release)
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