in bibliotheekboeken achtergelaten bladwijzers
(bookmarks left behind in librarybooks)
Next to the loan desk at the public library in The Hague is a collection of photographs, inconspicuously pinned to the side of a bookcase. A boy with a bandage stretched out on a couch, making a telephone call (has been hanging there for quite some time), a lady in white (was gone soon) and so on. Each photograph has been used by readers as a bookmark and handed in by accident together with the book. The librairians collected the photographs from the books and pinned them up the bookcase, because the library is keen on returning the photographs to their rightful owners.
For a couple of months gerlach en koop will observe this collection and take a photograph every other week. Each photograph will be a new issue of the magazine 'de avontuur bevat'. It's a one-page magazine. You can also think of it this way: there are more pages, they're just not one after the other as usual, but side by side, underneath, on top and mostly jumbled up. It's a magazine by approximation, a serial maybe, although that doesn't seem right either.
Readers determine the content and librairians determine the lay-out, both without knowing. Bookmarks are lost, found again (or not). Weeks may pass without any change. It's not up to us.
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