Artwork

Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)

Artist/Creator: Alexandra Bischoff (Creator)
Date: 2016-2018
ID #: BG5503-1

Physical Description

Medium: book, print, annotations, performance
Support: –
Dimensions: –
Object Description: Rereading Room is activated by The Readers (2018); a performance wherein thirteen artists, writers, theorists and researchers have been invited to occupy the installation for the duration of the exhibition, working with and against the inventory by reading, annotating and supplementing the collection to form a dossier of responses. Rereading Room is compiled of 114 books from the original collection of the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996). - Vancouver Women's Bookstore Catalogue, 1973

History

Collection: –
Credit Line: Purchased with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 2018
Related Exhibitions: Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT

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