shelf documents

How can art libraries be generative resources and sites of action for all who identify as queer, as women, as Black, as Indigenous, and as people of color? What does it mean to consider the art library as a collective practice that spans multiple scales? In shelf documents, artists, writers, curators, teachers, and librarians reflect on their engagements with books, libraries, and art-library-as-practice. Between a reader, an artist's book, a project documentation, and a catalogue, shelf documents might recall a pamphlet, a roadmap, or a recipe book that doesn't tell you what to do. It is a book that gets mis-shelved.