2114, Future Library: a conversation with Katie Paterson.

Leuzzi, Laura; Sbrilli, Antonella

Abstract

The completion of Future Library is 96 years away. Future Library is an artwork conceived by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson (born 1981), who explores time-related phenomena and paradoxes, in such a way that she has been compared to Italo Calvino for his Cosmicomics (Cosmicomiche). Future Library started in 2014 with the planting of 1000 Norwegian Spruce trees in a wood near Olso, which in 2114 will provide the paper to print an anthology of 100 books, written and penned year-after-year—starting from 2014—by invited authors.

Citation

LEUZZI, L. and SBRILLI, A. 2018. 2114, Future Library: a conversation with Katie Paterson. KronoScope [online], 18(1), pages 72-79. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341403

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 23, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Apr 2, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Oct 17, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 17, 2022
• Journal: KronoScope
• Print ISSN: 1567-715X
• Electronic ISSN: 1568-5241
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 72-79
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341403
• Keywords: Artwork; Artists; Scotland; Time-related phenomena; Paradoxes; Trees; Paper
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374938
• Additional Information: This interview appeared for the first time in an edited Italian version on Alfabeta2 on 23rd April 2017 (Laura Leuzzi, Antonella Sbrilli, “2114, la biblioteca del futuro. Una conversazione con Katie Paterson,” Alfabeta2, 23 April 2017, https://www.alfabeta2.it/2017/04/23/2114-libri-sulla-fiducia-conversazione-katie-paterson/).