BOOK LAUNCH
"The weather, a building" by Ruth Buchanan
KROME Gallery
November 03, 2012
5 pm

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KROME Gallery and Do You Read Me?! warmly invite you to the launch of Ruth Buchanan's artist book "The weather, a building", published by Sternberg Press. The launch marks the end of her exhibition-as-preface "Put a curve, an arch right through it".

Set inside the gallery space, the evening will consist of a reading, a conversation between Ruth Buchanan, Axel John Wieder and David Bennewith and an intervention by Ian White.




RUTH BUCHANAN
THE WEATHER, A BUILDING

Texts by Ruth Buchanan, Ian White

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Libraries are generally perceived as storehouses, spaces of stable accumulation and containment. While the architecture may attempt to operate in this stable tone, the material contained within them is often far wilder. Histories, biographies, loose thoughts, detailed notations, bodies, and objects are all temporarily suspended, cataloged, and organized, creating relationships where perhaps previously there was none. An example of where the tension between what is contained in libraries and how it is contained emerges in a highly palpable way in the trajectory of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. This new artist book by Ruth Buchanan charts three narratives associated with the life of this particular library. The anecdotes become both concrete examples and metaphors through which to interrogate the production, situating, and sharing of meaning.

Design by David Bennewith
Sternberg Press, November 2012, English
19.5 x 14.5 cm, 80 pages, 1 color and 10 b/w ill., softcover
ISBN 978-3-943365-36-8