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The Portable Auto-Didactic Library<\/strong><\/em>
Shown at: ‘ Extra Time’, Chronus Centre, Shanghai (2013)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image, bookshelf, books and memory table with chairs
Collaboration with Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Mueller<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Portable Auto-Didactic Library<\/em> is a configuration of reading table with chairs, a bookshelf with books and an image that features a stack of books with no titles on their spines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taken together, these elements constitute a representation of the way in which Raqs Media Collective likes to think about its self-education. The Portable Auto-Didactic Library is an adaptable working and study space, where visitors can consult the books on offer, make notes and leave observations and traces, and consider the new, as yet unwritten books that they may want to read or write by contemplating \u201cThe Namak Haraam\u2019s Philosophy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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