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LEXICON An exhibition of reworked pages from Chambers's English dictionary - London, 1898 Gallery @ city library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 1-30th August, 2006 Monday - Thursday 8am to 7.45pm Friday 8am to 5.45pm, Saturday 10am to 12.45pm An exhibition of reworked pages from (a palimpsest of accidental extractions) Chambers's English Dictionary - London, 1898 A group exhibition curated by Martina Copley John Abbate, Jennifer Bartholomew, Damiano Bertoli, Sue Boucher, Elizabeth Boyce, Sandra Bruce, Louisa Bufardeci, Jen Cabraja, Angela Cavalieri, Martina Copley, Craig Easton, Simone Ewenson, Anna Finlayson, Prudence Flint, Natasha Frisch, Tara Gilbee, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Tobias Hengeveld, Heather Hesterman, Ann Holt, Ruth Johnstone, Nicholas Jones, Kate Just, Dawn Kanost, Lori-Jean Kirk, Cassandra Laing, Alex Martinis Roe, Brandt McCook, Julie-Anne Milinski, Annee Miron, Claire Mooney, Christine Morrow, Geoff Newton, Pandarosa, Alex Pittendrigh, Stephanie Radok, Carly Richardson, Steven Rendall, Louise Rippert, Janita Ryan, Elissa Sadgrove, Alex Selenitsch, Sandra Selig, Heather Shimmen, Julia Silvester, Lynette Smith, Masato Takasaka, Sally Tape, Nadine Renee Treister, Emma van Leest, Elke Varga, Carmel Wallace, Darren Wardle, Gary Wheeler, Ilka White, Clare Whitney, Sarah Woods {Images from top to bottom, left to right, an invitation to Lexicon, and our work for the exhibition, Not a pipit, begins to take shape. Our page of the dictionary included pirates, (in) pistachio. This bird is a Robust White-eye, he is not a pipit.} |
"The
Chambers's English Dictionary - perfect bound with 1255 numbered pages,
printed in London, 1898, bought by a friend for $20 in a second hand
bookstore is an edition that now has the aura of a unique object. Signs
of use and accident - stains and tears, jottings and yellow-edged pages
- mark the book as integral with its material history, suggesting a
world in which the reference book is now an artifact of wisdom.
A communal archive of shared knowledge, symbolic of the library and
its holdings, the lexicon bears witness to old belief systems still
functioning through language. |
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