ANTONIS ANTONIOU

visual REsearch/REmix + editorial spaces + architectural pop +
out of scale + notes on notes + soft definitions + bibliographic lab +
about maps + illustration acts + schematic play

FIU
Biblioteca Móvil de Libros Album Anticolonial


Prototype, CC BY-NC-SA
Edition Guild 2023–24
Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica


FIU is a mobile library of anticolonial picture books. The books it keeps propose stories that challenge hegemonic narratives and open doors to imaginaries that resist the extractive model proposed by the West. They move between different languages ​​and encourage infinite translations. FIU is constructed in conversation with others: artists, activists, academics, poets propose the books kept in its boxes.*

We put FIU on its wheels to activate communal spaces around the act of reading, like public libraries, schools, or the street. Its destinations become collective events that combine reading, singing, dancing, performance, and conversations.

FIU is conceived in the context of the Raval district in Barcelona, yet it is designed to be replicable everywhere in the world. A manual will be published soon.Concepts editorial spaces + bibliographic lab + illustration acts
AccomplicesVerónica Lahitte
Carla Lupa
Mercedes Saya Rosés Fujiwara

*The titles that make up this project have been proposed by val flores, Diego Falconí, Pluriversidad Nómada (Ce Quimera + Lucía Egaña), Macarena García, Nadia Jabr, María Berríos, Karo Moret, Jesús Arpal and Sujeydi García, in conversation with the Edition Guild 23-24 of the Santa Mònica Arts Centre.
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