How to organize a library

The Appendixes #1–4 is an editorial series by Mette Edvardsen, Léa Poiré and Victoria Pérez Royo that developed out of the project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. For a two-year residency at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers* (2022–23), they came together as a small work group, shaping the work process, hosting presentation formats and making this publication series on paper as four cahiers.
The cahiers comprise a collection of commissioned texts and contributions created for this context, selected documents and traces from work sessions and encounters organized during their residency, texts read together and republished for this occasion, a collection of references, notes in progress, unfinished thoughts and loose fragments – on paper, between pages.

The Appendixes are organized around four themes: (1) The gesture of writing, (2) How to organize a library, (3) Orality and (4) Translation. In addition to being published on paper, the editorial series also consisted of other formats of presentations, exchanges and meetings organized as workshops, fieldwork, performances, conferences, collective readings and oral publications, taking place during their residency at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers and in the vicinity. 

The Appendixes is the work that continues, material that adds on, some of it perhaps too long or too detailed, unfit or unfinished. The four themes that their research is formulated around originate in specific experiences and questions from the practices of Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine (2010 - ongoing), and also the large publication on the project ‘A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books’ (2019). The research was both a means of exploring these themes in greater depth and also of bringing them into contact with other artists and researchers working on similar or related subjects. The Appendixes offered them both the contexts and the pretexts for things to happen (in time, in space, on paper).

How to organize a library/ Comment organiser une bibliothèque
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine - Appendixes #1-4

Edited by Mette Edvardsen, Léa Poiré, Victoria Pérez Royo 
Published by Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 2024

Texts by Victoria Pérez Royo, Gabriela Halac, Sharon Kivland, Paul B. Preciado, Lydia Davis, Léa Poiré, Benjamin Margueritte, Ellef Prestesæter, Mette Edvardsen, et al. 

210 x 295 mm, English/ French 
Softcover, stapled

ISBN 978-82-693555-1-2