Shelf documents - art library as practice

Shelf Documents: Art Library As Practice - Artists, writers, curators, teachers, and librarians consider how they can use the beloved library as a source of inspiration or a field of action for anyone who identifies as a woman, queer, non-binary, or person of color. Thinking about diversity in collections, the publication proposes art libraries as sites of intersubjective communion. It is a collaborative book acquisition project, initiated by artist Heide Hinrichs at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, in which her group integrated 223 new titles into art libraries in order to fill gaps, amplify voices, and seek out personal agency or oblivion.