The Library Talks with Yara Said
Opening of Yara's sound installation at the LibraryFor the last year, Yara Said has been the resident at the Rietveld & Sandberg Library. During this time she has been reflecting on the sonic conditions that manifest itself within the library space, and especially how the pre-dominant idea of a library as a silent, quiet space is conditioned and altered.
The residency has resulted in a two part permanent live sound installation that can be experienced within the library space and which translates the ongoing choreography of shelf browsing, door slamming, reading group discussions, air ventilation buzzing, keyboard tapping, thinking, cataloguing, stair climbing, silverfish crawling, plant growing, dust collecting, barcode scanning and other forms of apparent or imperceptible activities that take place in the library.
The installation has been made in collaboration with sound artist Ghaith Qoutainy.