This schedule is updated on a rolling basis until the week before the Biblodérive!
Check back in closer to the date for the full list of situations. In the meantime, you can propose a prompt for this year's deck, propose a situation, or view previous situations for inspiration!
5th floor Sharp corridor, near the Manifestos exhibition
Wake up to words! Every weekday morning during the Bibliodérive, staff from Special Collections + Digital Services will choose a manifesto to read aloud in the library. Everyone is welcome to join in or read along with provided copies.
6th floor Sharp, SW corner (Monroe & Wabash sides)
“Know Thyself” is an injunction from the time of mythic oracles and the first philosophers to our own era of psychoanalysis and individual spiritual searching. But to know your own mind, or even your heart’s desires, isn’t easy. Consulting the Tarot might help you know yourself better. Join Christian Sheppard and his class, "Tarot & Its Influence," to experience a magical Tarot ritual designed to guide you through the library’s labyrinth to your own deepest thoughts and desires. Everyone is welcome. Everyone is welcome.
6th floor Sharp
Created and enacted by Georgina Bowman's Introduction to AIA class, Sensing a Drift is a collection of wearable devices that disrupt the many interactions one typically has in the library. These devices will intervene in and filter your experience of the usual by engaging with (at least) one of the bodily senses in new and altered ways. Everyone is welcome.
6th floor Sharp
Stop by the front desk and choose a card from the Bibliodérive Deck and use the prompt to engage with the library’s collections, spaces, or community. The Bibliodérive Deck of cards will be available to dérivists for use throughout the event. Prior to the Bibliodérive, we are collecting new prompts from the SAIC community; click here to propose a prompt. The completed deck will be archived in the library.
5th & 6th floor Sharp
Observe or participate as indicated below, a variety of situations proposed by Pablo Monterrubio-Benet's Research Studio I's class.
Rain Rain... Come Again? 3-8pm
Rachel Oh's performance creates the embodiment of a rainy, stormy cloud that will walk around the library. It will disturb and attract library goers using sound effects of rain and use a flashlight to stimulate thunder. As rain has been used as a metaphor and symbol for hundreds of years, there is a plethora of literature to choose from and share with others. With a blinking flashlight in hand and poems in the other, the cloud will introduce people to poems, both old and new, about rain.
Hopscotch, 3-8pm
Kate Avery's interactive hopscotch pathway stops viewers in their tracks, presenting an alternate route to offer playfulness in everyday normality. Inspired by Situationist International's use of détournement, word play will be created with the library end panel sign using a sticker to create the word "hopscotch" on the isle directing visitors to the section with H letter books, encouraging them to "hopscotch" along the full length of the isle. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Photo Bingo, 3-8pm
Created by Ivana Maldonado, Photo Bingo invites participants to compete with others or simply play by themselves. In both cases, individuals will find each item or theme in the bingo squares and players will take a picture of the found section as proof or evidence. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Instructions for participants:
1. Compete with others or yourself to achieve five squares in a row!
2. Each individual participant will take only one bingo page and pen in a race to find each item or theme in each bingo square.
3. When each item or theme is found, take a picture of it with a phone or another device as proof or evidence.
4. Once an individual completes five squares in a row, they must yell out BINGO! and everyone must meet back to the starting point and review each photo before determining the winner.
Examples of some of the items or themes in each bingo square are:
Finding a specific, niche color (ex. yellow-green), a certain picture (ex. little red riding hood), a word (ex. orthodontists), and decorations or installations that will be in the library (ex. skeleton).
Waiting for Something to ________? 3-8pm
Dominic Bartel creates a mysterious paper trail that culminates in an immersive projection, an auditory barrage of information, ideas, and questions. Small notes with strange eye-like symbols placed around the library vaguely nudge drifters in the direction of an eerie entity that takes the form of a paper-mâché mask that lies in wait in a hidden corner. When drifters eventually stumble upon it, projections full of questions blanket the walls of the space, and an unnerving song emanates from the creature. The goal of this immersive projection installation is to make drifters think about and question their reality. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Radish Garden Box, 4-8pm
Luka Rausch's makeshift garden box of cardboard sits in the library, with books 'planted' in the paper soil. The Radish character works on the garden, labeling the crops (books) by subject and theme. Viewers can pull a book from the dirt via its 'stem' bookmark, and enjoy a randomized piece of literature relating to plants and gardening. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Collective Memory, 3-8pm
Amelia Carpenter invites participants to an interactive scrapbooking activity. The book will be the central feature, with scraps and stickers hidden inside books throughout the library. The scrapbooking materials will be discovered with a little note stating their purpose and instructions on how to find the scrapbook. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Bibli-omon Pokébook, 3-8pm
Bibli-omon is for fans who enjoy horror, Pokémon, K-Pop, and anime-style card collections. The event's concept is to collect a series of 'bibli-omon' cards designed by Jessica and Saz, who provide blank cards for participants to design their own OC (original character). These creations can be shared on a dedicated "Gallery Wall" by the elevators for everyone to admire. All the cards will be placed in the book for the duration of the event. After the event, any remaining cards will be collected back. Everyone is welcome to participate.
1. Read Instructions: on the wall by the 6th floor elevators
2. Get Starter Cards: Begin your adventure by exploring the library! Starter cards are hidden around the bookshelves for you to find.
3. Find & Create: As you search, there's a 30% chance you'll discover a blank card to design your very own OC.
4. Trade & Collect: Meet other collectors and trade any of your cards to build a unique collection.
5. (Optional) Share Your Creations: Once your OC card is finished, stick it on our dedicated "Gallery Wall" for everyone to admire. Don't forget to use #Bibliomon and #saic_library when you post your creations on social media!
What's Hidden in the Shadow, 3-8pm
Elias Weaver imagines that portions of the library will have the lights turned off. As participants are moving through the library, they will be encouraged to turn them on, revealing what's hidden underneath...Areas available for this are the individual AV playback stations and the bookeye scanner. Everyone is welcome to participate.
5th floor Sharp corridor, near the Manifestos exhibition
Vivian Ji's performance explores the myth of citizenship and assimilation into American society that doubles down on non-white and non-cis-male folks. This condition is productive labor; to be a model cog in the system. Ji's performance explores the fragility but necessity of life-draining labor by carrying a heavy bag of rice and ending in the center of a spiral with their head level as the ground. The ability and privilege that often is found in research surrounding labor, gentrification, and homelessness can be opened up through sustained physical examination: to humanize what statistics cannot, to reveal and empathize with more precise struggles, leading to more accurate and influential research. Additionally, each performer is invited to consider their own standing with labor as a necessity, and the paradox in capitalist society to exhaust their time and energy for a false promise of a higher quality of living. Hopefully, we begin to consider: who does our hard work pay off for? Everyone is welcome to view and perform their own walk along the spiral.
6th floor Sharp
if vision has replaced touch
as the dominant form of non-verbal world making
maybe we can take our atrophied muscles
back to the drawing board
1. a map of the library
2. dice
3. a drawing pad
4. a marker
5. people in a line
6. one input
7. one output
MacLean 1307, 112 S. Michigan Avenue
An occasional screening series from the Flaxman Library's 16mm Film Study Collection. This screening features recent acquisitions by Robert Rayher, Pat O'Neil and Edward Owens. Everyone is welcome.
613 Sharp
This Description Was Written by ChatGPT. Are you curious about the secrets hidden within your dreams? Do you long to unravel the enigmatic messages your subconscious mind is sending you? Join us for a journey through the ethereal dream realm. At the ChatGPT Dream Interpretation Station, we believe that dreams hold the key to self-discovery and personal transformation. Our talented Dream Interpreters will use the power of the Crystal Ball to guide you through the profound and mysterious world of your dreams. The answers you seek are just a dream away.
503 Sharp Library Special Collections Reading Room
Join Arnold J. Kemp, Professor in Painting & Drawing, for his performative lecture including select readings of concrete poems from The Matrix. Everyone is welcome.
6th floor Sharp
Prof. Simon Anderson's Situationist Report class will create/perform/enact dérives in homage to Situationist International tenets.
5th floor Sharp corridor, open to everyone
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many can a garment hold? Our clothes are our companions as we live our lives. They hold the stories of our first dates, days at the farmers’ market with friends, difficult moments and serendipitous ones, and all the mundane grocery store trips and errands in between. Clothes are a diary; one that is added to over time by different authors. We invite participants to bring a story about a piece of clothing you are bringing to swap. Come read the tales of your classmates and coworkers and take home something to add to your own story. You do not need to bring something to take something! The last hour of the swap please feel free to take any clothes for textile projects, crafts, or any other reuse!
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