Library encounters (2021-)
is an ongoing research project into the itineraries of books and their readers. What started as a thesis resulted in this website.
A growing collection of transcribed interviews that form a digital point to depart from and practice a sense of direction.

It questions the different ways we navigate. How we redefine our position continuously in relation to each other, through our shelves and through the pages of a book.
It is not interested in the information perse, but in how one specific thing or person is informing one specific other and how this happens in a conversation, through reading, listening, detaching, underlining, mirroring and associating.

This website is a peak into reality, which is always an excess and always overflowing.
I trust you with the full context of a conversation. This digital environment, these linguistic material remnants, ask for some engagement and your time. You are invited to follow me in resisting from fading into the all blue. Measure it's depths between the lines of raw spoken language. A vast and perpetual space that can seem overwhelming. But the horizon is always shifting and it is this shifting that I want to make visible by documenting my process of listening to readers and by following their traces of use.

You can tack through this website from interview to interview, through time and space. In every interview, you can nose around and choose a direction by clicking on a blue that intrigues you and the research will unfold itself.