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
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent 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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