University Library
About this artwork
Shot in Glasgow University Library, this film explores how individuals use a communal space. It comprises interior footage of the library, contrasting deserted aisles and close-ups of shelves of books with shots of students engrossed in studying and using library facilities including computers, keyboards and lifts. By unobtrusively filming students and editing the film rhythmically like a piece of music, Nashashibi highlights the routines and patterns behind our everyday activities, which would usually go unnoticed. The film runs to around seven minutes long and has no dialogue or music, only background noise.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Rosalind Nashashibi (born 1973) British
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title:University Library
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date created:2004
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materials:Colour video projection,transferred from 16mm film, with sound, 7 min.,14 sec.
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credit line:Purchased with funds from the Cecil and Mary Gibson Bequest 2004
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accession number:GMA 4754
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Rosalind Nashashibi
Rosalind Nashashibi
Rosalind Nashashibi makes films which reveal the rhythms and patterns of everyday life, and explore the boundaries between reality and fiction. Although she uses real situations, Nashashibi is not interested in documenting real life in an anthropological manner. Rather, she is fascinated in the...