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THE LAST BOOK
(A Project by Luis Camnitzer, sponsored by the National Library of Spain)
Open call for collaborations
The Last Book is a project to compile written as well as visual statements in
which the authors may leave a legacy for future generations. The premise of the
project is that book-based culture is coming to an end. On one hand, new
technologies have introduced cultural mutations by transferring information to
television and the Internet. On the other, there has been an increasing
deterioration in the educational systems (as much in the First World as on the
periphery) and a proliferation of religious and anti-intellectual
fundamentalisms. The Last Book will serve as a time-capsule and leave a
document and testament of our time, as well as a stimulus for a possible
reactivation of culture in case of disappearance by negligence, catastrophe or
conflagration.
Contributions to this project will be limited to one page and may be e-mailed
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or mailed to Luis Camnitzer, 124 Susquehanna Ave., Great
Neck NY 11021, USA. In case of submission of originals, these will not be
returned. The book will be exhibited as an installation at the entrance of the
Museum of the National Library of Spain in Madrid at some point of 2008. Pages
will be added during the duration of the project, with the intention of an
eventual publication of an abridged version selected by Luis Camnitzer, curator
of the project. The tentative deadline is October 15, 2008.
If image , jpeg 300dpi, 8" wide, if text, one page in Word.
This call is open and we hope that it will be resent to as many potential
contributors as possible.
Questions?
Luis Camnitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
