Gray’s Research Exhibition: ecoartscotland library as bing
ecoartscotland library as bing, 2016 ongoing, digital images printed on aluminium.
Riffing off John Latham’s 1976 statements about the ‘mental furniture industry’ and the waste produced by academia exceeding the waste produced by industry, these images reimagine the ecoartscotland library in relation to a bing in central Scotland, typical but also exemplary in its simplicity. Life has developed on the bing. The ecoartscotland library, whilst not waste (yet?), isn’t at present a substrate for vegetable or fungal life, nevertheless doesn’t have intrinsic value(?).
The ecoartscotland library has been exhibited as a working library and as a bing, and has formed part of other projects.
A reasonably up to date list of the contents of the ecoartscotland library can be found here.
The ecoartscotland library is somewhat related to The Martha Rosler Library.
What art have I seen? Gi cont.
Mitchell Library contains two temporary library related projects:
A public library of and for listening by Anneke Kampman and Katherine MacBride
Invitation to Forms with Kate Briggs, Joseph Buckley, Francis McKee, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Sarah Tripp, Nina Wakeford and Brighton Upton-Trust
CHRIS FREMANTLE 
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