Lu Zhang is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, and organizer who works in installation, sculpture, drawing, and text – often in response to a chosen site.
Lu Zhang is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, and organizer who works in installation, sculpture, drawing, and text – often in response to a chosen site.
2015 / Box housing card catalog sized bibliography and process materials including xeroxes, microfilm, microfiche, cyanotypes, archival digital prints, sketchbooks, and essays / 20.5 X 15.5 X 3.625 inches
Book six is a unique edition of a combination of bibliographic information (including card catalog cards), the captions and translations for book 1, and all the material from the process of making the six part book collection. Resembling both a card catalog and the stacks of the library, part six reveals the author’s experience in exploring the George Peabody Library and the sorting/shifting of this discovered material.
Part six of a 6 volume set of works, compiled and created to document the collection and site of the George Peabody Library of the Johns Hopkins University. Each part finds its expression based on the material housed in the particular level of the library.
photos by Joseph Hyde, book bound by Almanac Industries