Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine –
The Appendixes #1-4

The Appendixes #1–4 is an editorial series by Mette Edvardsen, Léa Poiré and Victoria Pérez Royo that developed out of the project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. For a two-year residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (2022–23), we came together as a small work group, shaping the work process, hosting presentation formats and making this publication series on paper as four cahiers.

The cahiers comprise a collection of commissioned texts and contributions created for this context, selected documents and traces from work sessions and encounters organized during our residency, texts read together and republished for this occasion, a collection of references, notes in progress, unfinished thoughts and loose fragments – on paper, between pages.

The Appendixes are organized around four themes: (1) The gesture of writing, (2) How to organize a library, (3) Orality and (4) Translation. In addition to being published on paper, the editorial series also consisted of other formats of presentations, exchanges and meetings organized as workshops, fieldwork, performances, conferences, collective readings and oral publications, taking place during our residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and in the vicinity.

The Appendixes is the work that continues, material that adds on, some of it perhaps too long or too detailed, unfit or unfinished. The four themes that our research is formulated around originate in specific experiences and questions that emerged from the practices of Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine (2010–ongoing) and an extensive publication on the project, Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine – A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books (2019).

The research was both a means of exploring these themes in greater depth and also of bringing us into contact with other artists and researchers working on similar or related subjects. The Appendixes offered us both the contexts and the pretexts for things to happen (in time, in space, on paper).

The Appendixes #1–4, published in these cahiers, do not present an overview or a summary of all of the activities and presentations that took place during the two years at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. What these cahiers offer is a space in which to hold some thoughts together and to share them in this form. It is one more step along the way, extending the research and work already begun and that will now continue.

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#1 The gesture of writing / Le geste de l’écriture
• English / French
• 56 pages
• Couverture souple, agrafé 21 x 29.5 cm
• ISBN : 978-82-693555-0-5
• 15€
• Texts by Mette Edvardsen, Ane Thon Knutsen, Victoria Pérez Royo, Itxaso Corral Arrieta, Léa Poiré, Ben Woodard, Lizzie Thomson, Dora García, et al.

#2 How to organize a library / Comment organiser une bibliothèque
• English / French
• 56 pages
• Couverture souple, agrafé 21 x 29.5 cm
• ISBN : 978-82-693555-1-2
• 15€
• Texts by Victoria Pérez Royo, Gabriela Halac, Sharon Kivland, Paul B. Preciado, Lydia Davis, Léa Poiré, Benjamin Margueritte, Ellef Prestesæter, Mette Edvardsen, et al.

#3 Orality / Oralité
• English / French
• 64 pages
• Couverture souple, agrafé 21 x 29.5 cm
• ISBN : 978-82-693555-2-9
• 15€
• Texts by Simon Asencio, Peter Szendy, Bruno De Wachter, Léa Poiré, Jude Joseph, Mette Edvardsen, Itziar Okariz, Clara Amaral

#4 Translation / Traduction
• English / French
• 72 pages
• Couverture souple, agrafé 21 x 29.5 cm
• ISBN : 978-82-693555-3-6
• 15€
• Texts by Laía Argüelles Folch, Quim Pujol, Paula Caspão, Simon Asencio, Pascal Poyet, Mette Edvardsen, Léa Poiré, Victoria Pérez Royo, Olivia Fairweather, Kate Briggs, Dora García, Julián Pacomio, Ángela Millano

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