Unpacking My Library

Titled "Unpacking my Library/Desempacando mi biblioteca," Buzz Spector's project for inSITE94 was located at the University Art Gallery on the campus of San Diego State University. As the title suggests, the installation consisted of the artist's private library of books. A single continuous shelf mounted on the wall of the gallery space and running he length of all four walls held the artist's books arranged by size, from large to small. Rather than organizing the books alphabetically, by subject, or by author, the artist chose to present them based on an aesthetic and an order seemingly random and foreign to the way we generally regard books. --inSITE94

• 1994

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

• Spector, Buzz (American installation artist, born 1948)

• InSITE94

• Asebedo, Anna (American)
• Yapelli, Tina

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 06, Item 371)

San Diego State University. University Art Gallery

wood (plant material); bookshelves; brackets (finish hardware); books

• InSITE94

• Installations (visual works)
• Sculpture (visual work)

• Aesthetics
• Collecting
• Humor
• Libraries
• Literature

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715652

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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2020-10-28