Sadie Plant: Comment Lire a Bookshelf in Einem Buch

A work inspired by lost, found and discarded books becomes a book in its own right

This volume is based on an installation on a railway platform at a train station in Biel, Switzerland. Author and artist Sadie Plant (born 1964) transformed an old phone booth into an exhibition space with two bookshelves, each with titles arranged to resemble a public "library" of free books. The installation also included around 20 short poems by Plant, which could also be accessed online by scanning QR codes: these now appear as texts alongside images of the original stacks of titles. Comment Lire a Bookshelf in Einem Buch also contains installation shots, including images of members of the public interacting with the work, and essays by Plant and Anne K nig, reflecting on the work and its context. In this way, a work that was inspired by and mainly composed of lost, found and discarded books now becomes a book in its own right.