Things That Go Without Saying
(2013-2022)
Nine days work
Dimensions:
45 sq. metres
Materials:
Pine boards, recycled timber, nails, screws, stain, oil.
Function by:
Celine Condorelli
Design by function:
with Harry Thaler
Execution by:
Stefanie Bauman, Mark Chizzola, Céline Condorelli, Tanja Gurke, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Henrik Klug, Harry Thaler, Michael.
Instructions:
Collect books for the member’s library and place in Things That Go Without Saying. Stop at 361.
Place books on every available surface, in every possible way, temporarily, and permanently, and order according to use.
Joker:
Purchase a copy of Perec’s Species of Spaces, and place randomly, with a page holder at the essay Think, Classify.
Installation views Grazer Kunstverein, 4 Burgasse, Graz, Austria, (March 8th 2013 – January 2022, wed–sun 11am–6pm.)
Photographs courtesy of Grazer Kunstverein except where stated.
