The exhibition, “A Cabinet of Curiosity: the Library’s Dead Time” was an experiment to make material a scholarly argument. By crafting sculptures that represent the practice of research, the authors sought to render visible for critical investigation the activities of thinking and writing that constitutes much of the work of the humanities. The exhibition employed the cabinet of curiosity as a physical and rhetorical framework to organize these sculptures which were deployed as part of a public interrogation of the social processes that underpin the formulation, classification, transmission, and preservation of knowledge in the traditional library as well as in the emergent digital spaces of information exchange. Installation on the art and process of research.
BONNIE MAK. FEBRUARY 2012. FIGURE ONE GALLERY, CHAMPAIGN, IL
