The Library Talks with Lieven Lahaye
Lieven Lahaye (Belgium, 1985) is an artist and librarian, interested in the value of ephemeral information and amateur practices. He produces printed matter, furniture and performances. Since 2016, he’s written and published ‘Catalog’, a serial publication about cataloging, designed by Ott Metusala. Catalog #16, ‘Annotations’ will be published to coincide with this library talk – it’s a collection of sources, notes, annotations, traces, paths and earworms related to ongoing research. The publication is part of an ongoing sub-series of ‘Catalog’, documenting the research on the near invisibility of writer Duncan Smith (1954-1991).
Catalog #17 will be published in spring 2020 in collaboration with artist Joke Robaard. This issue looks at ‘Everybody wants exposure’, a 1984 essay by Duncan Smith about the speculative relationship between developing photographs and fading denim jeans.
Lieven Lahaye was cataloger at the Rietveld & Sandberg library for the last five years, until December 2019, and studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.