F.I.G.
Factory Industries Group
Library of Babel
2024 – Installation, Curation – Indebt Art Gallery
Inspired by the short story ”Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges, I built an interactive installation and organized a group show, inviting 34 artists, musicians and lecturers to interpret the theme.
In the story, Borges imagines the universe as a series of infinite, connecting hexagonal libraries filled with shelves of books with random characters. Driven to madness, librarians seek a mythical “Crimson Hexagon” containing a codex to interpret the randomness.
My installation imagined one of the hexagons, filled with 16 books with randomly-generated lines (according to Borges’ specifications). Visitors were encouraged to type a line of their selection from the book into the iPad mounted on the wall. The code then returned a randomly-generated, yet syntactically-cohesive sentence.
The installation prompted users to question archival practices in an age of seemingly-infinite knowledge.
With over 150 attendees, our show succeeded in materializing a surreal short story through collaborative and immersive audience participation. We invited the audience to challenge the limits of archiving and communication in the age of information excess.
SCHEDULE
15:00 – Pala. G (DJ + music solo)
15:40 – András Kiss (lecture)
16:05 - Ton Felices (music solo)
16:25 - Ayoub Samadi (lecture)
16:50 – Micheal Murray (music solo)
17:10 - Abhiraj Goswami (lecture)
17:30 – Tzara the Machine (music solo)
17:50 - Raiyu Hirayama (lecture)
18:10 - Franek Dziduch (reading)
18:25 - Cherie Kekko (DJ)
18:35 - Ren Babac (performance)
19:05 - Edo Taddia (reading)
19:15 - Human Observer (music solo)
19:30 - Anthony Girgis (music solo)
19:45 – Theodorus (music duo)
20:00 - Sola Lutringer (music solo)
10:15 - Music installation (group)
22:00 – Neska (DJ)
Listen back to the lectures and music here:
https://kazimirlovink.stack.storage/s/jDjoibG08npKh0dI/en