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Re-search,Re-trace, Re-invent, Re-member, Re-visit, Re-side, Re-flect, Re-archive.

We are Yan Gi Cheng, Yuko Amano and Zoe Dowlen met whilst in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. After a fruitful and dynamic collaboration, we would like to further our artistic investigations within the framework of a month long residency at Andreas Züst Bibliothek.

Re-search We are interested in researching the art publications of Andreas Züst and absorbing the book collections he left behind so as to both reignite his legacy and create something new between our own artistic evolutions.

Re-invent We are interested in the definition and parameters of communal space especially within and outside of the environment of the library. The activity of reading can be a solitary pursuit but within a library context it becomes communal. We are influenced by Julia Kristen’s ideas surrounding ‘intertextuality’ whereby the interrelationship between texts generates understandings in separate works to influence a reader and add layers of depth to another text. We want to reinvent aspects of language; to understand movement through spaces and in some cases create a fictional language, so as to add a performative layer within a site specific context.

Re-trace When we look at a shelf full of books there are various reasons that we are drawn to some and not others; a kind of resonance based on personal research and interests. We want to document the moment of searching in the library. This moment of the search interests us as a possible method to open ourselves to the unexpected. By transcribing these spatial trajectories within the library and retracing them in another environment (in nature or surrounding areas) we can draw new correlations between text and object.  

Re-member We see the library or the archive in the same way as cave paintings were left many centuries ago; as memories left to future generations. Through these exercises in communal reading we intend to condense the existing texts through our own perspectives into actions, poems, rituals and photographs; whilst celebrating Andreas Züst’s own works.

Re-visit Libraries are about experiences, places to borrow and exchange knowledge. We want to continue to instil civic engagement and give back and create a new community to connect with people. We want to invite members of the community to participate in our happenings, collective cooking, and make group walks outside of the library. Throughout the month long residency we want to engage the public by not only absorbing content within the book collection of the library but also create content through remembering, sharing, understanding, applying, evaluating and creating new knowledge which can be given back to the library and community.

Re-side Living together and working as a group is also part of our methodologies for communal reading. Our cultural backgrounds, mother languages and adopted cultures change the way we experience ourselves and each other. They are part of our inter-text and through our exchanges we hope to broaden both our understanding and references and those of our visitors and collaborators.

Re-flect The library is a place for reflection, even things written many years ago are brought back into the present when we open the book. Using mirrored reflective surfaces and extracts from the books in the library we want to integrate this idea into our artist’s publication through actions that reflect between the inside space of the library the inside of the book and the space outside; sky and nature.

Re-archive Using data collected after observing habit patterns and books which have been borrowed we want to reconstruct an alternative environment which can be shared and participated again by the public.  We want to have our own art publication; of actions, stories, happenings, performances, dinners, and other public engagements. This new book will be re-archived into the library at Andreas Züst Bibliothek for the use of future generations.

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Research / Retrace / Remembrance / Reflection

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We Find Wildness : Franz Erhard Walther

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The Transformative Power of Rain: Michel Blazy

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what a amazing place!