Unfold

Vision Forum is proud to announce the launch of Unfold, a curatorial experimentation on the digital folder to trigger associative thinking, anti-authorial agency, movement of thoughts, untimely collaborations.

Re-generated by seven guest curators every two months, Unfold is a library hosting shifting constellations of artistic content, books, found objects and software, both newly commissioned and already existing. Like all libraries, Unfold is a space of copies, copies of copies, appropriations, heterogeneity and contradictions.

Unfold is the final outcome of the VOLUME project, a research and artistic project focusing on the concept and agency of the library curated by Sara Giannini in collaboration with 98weeks Research Project (Beirut) and Vision Forum (Stockholm).

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Unfold #1
15 September – 15 November 2015
Curated by Sara Giannini

A Library Where The Books Have Melted Into One Another and The Titles Have Faded Away.

The first installment of Unfold departs from the VOLUME project and follows a contrapuntist arrangement for coded texts, found images, field recordings, photocopies, notes and videos; time-lapsed and displaced.

With contributions by Mounira Al Solh, Stefanie Baumann, Andrew Beccone, Walter Benjamin, Nadia Bou Ali, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Aldis Ellersdóttir Hóff, Per Hüttner, Marcell Mars, RYBN.ORG, Walid Sadek, Sami Khatib (& more…)

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Next Installments:
Every two months a different guest curator will reshuffle and expand the library according to a specific theme

Unfold #2 98weeks Research Project (Beirut)
Unfold #3 Anna Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin (Berlin & Jakarta)
Unfold #4 CAMP (Mumbai)
Unfold #5 Onomatopee (Eindhoven)
Unfold #6 Alessandro Ludovico (Bari)
Unfold #7 Lara Khaldi & Yazan Khalil (Ramallah)

The VOLUME project was supported by the Swedish Institute in Stockholm and Prince Claus Fond in Amsterdam.