Shelf documents: art library as practice

Abstract

Shelf documents emerges out of the project "second shelf" (second-shelf.org), a collaborative book acquisition project at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Curators integrated 243 new titles by nonbinary, women and queer artists as well as artists of colour in art libraries as a way to fill gaps, to amplify voices, to seek out the self-initiated and the overlooked.

Contents

Finding the core: our institutions. Our selves / by Jo-ey Tang -- Shelf shifts / by David Senior -- Embracing noise and other airborne risks to the reading body / by Elizabeth Haines -- Threads from the labyrinth (about a library in Beirut) / by Rachel Dedman -- Not alone / by Susanne Weiß -- Pages / by Ersi Varveri -- Typography shelf / by Sara De Bondt -- Towards a feminist practice: notes on listening / by Marisa C. Sánchez -- Reading as activism: the WOCI reading group: interview with Samia Malik / by Elizabeth Haines -- Inscriptions: interview with Heide Hinrichs / by Susanne Weiß -- Camoflaged for fire / by Melanie Noel -- All the women I know / by Laura Larson.