The gathering of collective memory. A pre-literate notion of memory, in a communal way, something commemorative rather than putting a memory in a container. What we thought it was going to be changed completely. We are in that way changing our memory of what it was supposed to be. What are you able to collect? Memories? Objects? People? A collection of texts and people, collecting and composing each other? Somehow it's not even important that we have all the knowledge, what's important is the living, generative sense of the collection.

The Library Is Open (Publication)

The Library Is Open (Publication)

The Library Is Open was printed and published in June 2019 and launched at the 2019 Graduation Show. It includes descriptions, processes and outcomes of the workshops held at Leeszaal Rotterdam West, interviews with Marcell Mars, Dusan Barok, Dubravka Sekulic and librarians of Leeszaal, and an appendix of open letters; guest editor Femke Snelting's introduction to the 2019 iteration of Interfacing the Law, the letter \"In Support of Library Genesis and Sci-Hub\" from the website custodians.online, and Alexandra Elbakyan's response to the presiding judge in the court case \"Elsevier Inc. et al v. Sci-Hub et al\".

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