{"id":73195,"date":"2014-06-26T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=73195"},"modified":"2014-06-26T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:03:07","slug":"future-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/future-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\/* <![CDATA[ *\/ portfolio_slideshow.slideshows[937] = {\"timeout\":\"4000\",\"autoplay\":\"false\",\"trans\":\"fade\",\"loop\":\"true\",\"speed\":\"400\",\"nowrap\":\"true\"}; \/* ]]> *\/<\/script><div id=\"slideshow-wrapper937\" class=\"slideshow-wrapper clearfix portfolio-slideshow-centered\">\n<div id=\"slideshow-nav937\" class=\"slideshow-nav\">\n\t<a class=\"pause\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Pause<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"play\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Play<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"restart\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"javascript: 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In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-locals.net\/a-library-of-the-future-new-deichman-main-library-oslo-norway\/\">the city\u2019s new library<\/a>, a window from a quiet room on the fifth floor faces out onto the nascent forest, which you can see across the harbor. These\u2014those trees, this room\u2014are the basic components of the Scottish artist Katie Paterson\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/news\/2014-06-12_katie-paterson-future-library?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Katie+Paterson_Future+Library_140612&amp;utm_content=Katie+Paterson_Future+Library_140612+CID_be49184390de7f8ae83085f20770de6b&amp;utm_source=Simon_Evans_Campaign&amp;utm_term=here\/4\">Future Library<\/a>,<\/em> a century-long project that contemplates the full scale of the publishing process, with its many tangibles and intangibles:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It will be 100 years before the trees are cut down to provide the paper for an anthology of books\u2014a\u00a0<em>Future\u00a0Library\u00a0<\/em>for the city of Oslo\u2014read for the first time in 2114 \u2026 Every year from 2014 to 2114, a writer will be commissioned to contribute a new text to a growing collection of unpublished, unread manuscripts held in trust in a specially designed room in the new Deichmanske Public Library in Bj\u00f8rvika until their publication in 2114.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That room, intended to be \u201ca space of contemplation,\u201d is lined with wood from the felled forest; once the initial clear-cutting was complete, Paterson and a group of loggers planted the new saplings themselves, as photographed above.<\/p>\n<p>An eight-person trust will guide the project into the future, with a small editorial panel\u2014including the Booker Prize\u2019s Ion Trewin\u2014selecting the writers, the first of whom will be announced in September. Writers have no obligation to say what they\u2019ll write or how long their manuscripts will be; they can produce whatever they want. A particularly ambitious or deranged author could take it upon himself to write an epic, laying waste to a significant percentage of the forest in so doing.<\/p>\n<p>Paterson has also designed a limited run of certificates made from the trees that were cut down to make the new library. The double-sided print features a graphic of a tree trunk and functions as a deed or a share, entitling its owner to receive the anthology of Future Library books in 2114. New York\u2019s James Cohan Gallery is showing the certificate in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/exhibitions\/2014-06-26_the-fifth-season\">The Fifth Season<\/a>,\u201d a group exhibition whose opening reception is tonight at 6 <small>P<\/small>.<small>M<\/small>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt grows in the mind,\u201d William Pym, a curator at the gallery, said of the project. \u201cThere\u2019s really not much to see.\u201d Given its duration, <em>Future Library<\/em> is destined to be \u201cforgotten and then remembered again,\u201d he added, noting that attention paid to the project will ebb and flow over the years as new writers are chosen and as printing technologies advance.<\/p>\n<p>The project foregrounds the most easily or willfully forgotten part of bookmaking: the trees. A bound book sits at a far remove from the natural world it came from\u2014<em>Future Library<\/em> reminds us of the geographical realities of publishing, of the time and resources necessary to make paper. And as, presumably, digital media will continue to proliferate over the next century, Paterson\u2019s art is resolutely, provocatively analog: every part of its process is tethered to the physical world. A visitor in Oslo can stand in the library and point to the source of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, one thousand new trees are growing about twenty minutes outside Oslo. In the city\u2019s new library, a window from a quiet room on the fifth floor faces out onto the nascent forest, which you can see across the harbor. 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