[Oberlist] ES* call: The Last Book Project

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Call for entries
Deadline: 31 March 2008

The Last Book is a project to compile written as well as visual statements
in which the authors may leave a legacy for future generations. The
premise of the project is that book-based culture is coming to an end.


On one hand, new technologies have introduced cultural mutations by
transferring information to television and the Internet. On the other,
there has been an increasing deterioration in the educational systems (as
much in the First World as on the periphery) and a proliferation of
religious and anti-intellectual fundamentalisms. The Last Book will serve
as a time-capsule and leave a document and testament of our time, as well
as a stimulus for a possible reactivation of culture in case of
disappearance by negligence, catastrophe or conflagration.

Contributions to this project will be limited to one page and may be
e-mailed to lastbook.madrid la gmail.com or mailed to Luis Camnitzer, 124
Susquehanna Ave., Great Neck NY 11021, USA.

In case of submission of originals, these will not be returned. The book
will be exhibited as an installation at the entrance of the Museum of the
National Library of Spain in Madrid at some point of 2008. Pages will be
added during the duration of the project, with the intention of an
eventual publication of an abridged version selected by Luis Camnitzer,
curator of the project. The tentative deadline is March 31, 2008.

This call is open and we hope that it will be resent to as many potential
contributors as possible.

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