<!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>the bootleg library</title> <meta name="description" content="XPUB"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/pages.css"> </head> <body> <div id='wrapper'></div> <a href='../' id='homebttn' class='ext'> << home</a> <header> <h1 id='project-title'>the bootleg library <a href='#hleft-text' class='show'> ⓘ</a></h1> <h2 id='student-name'>Simon Browne</h2> <div id='hleft-text'> <a href=# id='back'> <div id='inner-hleft-text'> <div id='ihtp'> <object> <div id='about-project'> <p>The "bootleg library" is a particular, situated social infrastructure. It operates from the understanding that the library is a collection; a collection of the texts contained within it, and the readers collected around them. A reciprocal, self-reflexive relationship between the texts and the readers produces sociability. A bootleg is an unauthorised copy of a source publication; bootlegging is a strategy by which texts acquire diversity, resisting singularity and representing readers.</p> </div> <hr align='left'> <div id='about-student'> <p>Simon Browne (AU) is an artist, researcher, organiser and contingent librarian. His practice focuses on social infrastructures, the tools that support them, and the contingencies they offer.</p> <p>This research has been supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust.</p> </div> <a id='getback' class='int'> go back </a> </object> </div> </div> </a> </div> </header> <section id='main'> <div id="galleries"> <div id='publication'> <h3 class='gal-title'>Publication</h3> <ul id='publist'> <li><a href='pdf/thesis.pdf' target="_blank" class='ext'>Tasks of the Contingent Librarian</a></li> </ul> <!-- <img src="img/pub1.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/pub2.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/pub3.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/pub4.jpg" class='workimg'/> --> </div> <div id='work'> <h3 class='gal-title'>Work</h3> <ul id='publist'> <li><a href='https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/s/tasks/' target="_blank" class='ext'>Library of Contingencies</a></li> </ul> <img src="img/keeping_private.png" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/BL_Meeting_Grounds_06.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/Digital_bl_02.png" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/Bl_sessions_cards.jpeg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/TOTCL_06.jpeg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/TOTCL_05.jpeg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/Bl_varia_06.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/Bl_kdh_04.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/Bl_varia_01.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/Femifestos_2nd_ed_C_07.jpg" class='workimg'/> </div> <div id='gradshow'> <!-- <h3 class='gal-title'>Graduation Show</h3> <img src="img/gradshow1.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/gradshow2.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/gradshow3.jpg" class='workimg'/> <img src="img/gradshow4.jpg" class='workimg'/> --> </div> </div> </section> </div> </body> </html>