Moving Thinking — the foundation of one’s thought is the thought of another is a long duration performance, at the Stedelijk Museum Library in Amsterdam, in which I followed the movement of thoughts that links a book to the other through their content, departing from Writing as Sculpture by Louwrien Wijers, creating a maze that would eventually lead to the poetic wisdom of the first man in history.
The existing order of books at the reading room of the library, organized alphabetically on artists’ names, was changed. The books were progressively replaced by books from the storage in a new fashion. In contrast with centered, or even polycentric systems defined by hierarchical modes of communication and pre-established paths (the tree model), the books are being placed in the shelves in an acentric, non-hierarchical, non-signifying system, without a general structuration and without an organizing memory or central automaton, it is defined solely by a circulation of states, directions in motion and connections between circumstances.
The public was welcome to participate in the progress of the work.
Fall 2015 — Summer 2016 Stedelijk Museum.