Intervention 4 - Rachel Smith. 16 - 23 November 2011

In preparation for my intervention, I went to the Hallam Library in order to get a sneak preview of the book, in order to allow myself time to interact with the text. The edition I acquired was larger than the book we were using for our collaborative intervention. This led me to consider each edition in comparison to the other. I wanted to somehow connect the 2 volumes by my intervention.

I felt suprised by my way of working as I had planned to do something different to what I ended up doing, however by taking the book from the library this totally changed my reaction which was more spontaneous.
I only worked with pages in the book that were different from the copy I had taken from the library.

The cover is a tracing of the edition I loaned, but the size relates to the copy the group were working on. When tracing the title of the book, within the restricted size, I felt happy that there only remained the word Symbol, as Lou had removed the words symbolic and images. However to trace off the word Images would have meant putting that word back in. This lead to my decision of tracing with tippex; so technically the word has still been removed, with the same material Lou used but just so accurately it is still readable.

The drawn tracings are the illustrations put into the same places as in the version I worked with, tracing the fragment which fits within the size constraints. Each tracing is 60 seconds worth of drawing which reflects the segmented hourly structure of my work life and the restricted time I feel I have to dedicate to my own practice. The overlapping nature of the drawings gives a suggestion of what could be there and the tracings are done on both sides of the paper.

I am interested in how the added illustration pages interact with the cut pages. I also added pencil corrections to the illustration index so as to leave a clue as to how they appear in other editionsand how many illustrations are in each cluster.

Intervention3 Book in a Box Eva Budweg 1st November

The idea to pass a book around seemed interesting and challenging at the same time. After spending a couple of days with the book I was not sure how to feel about it. People did not just add to the book they also destroyed it in a certain way. Some parts are not readable, the pages are cut into and if one would not know the title, they could not recognize it.

There was a book, by “adding” or “doing” something to the book it changed its character. Its up to the viewer to decide if it got destroyed or was made to be a unique object.

One could argue either side.

However, I felt that it was necessary to protect the book. I know that this was an impossible task, so I decided to put the book in a box. In the box I wrote something, a section from the Bible. The Bible is just as confusing and interesting as this project, so is the particular section.

I am being aware of the fact that the book will not stay protected by the box it is in.