The over 140 stories found in the CD ROM 'Library' of
READING ROOM
are collected from European immigrants and their descendents to
Western Canada at the turn of the century until now. They are, like most
family stories, remembered and retold as a celebration of both the
unusual and the ordinary.
A few of the stories situated anonymously among the rest, are invented.
These are reminders of the inaccuracy and subjectivity of memory and
of history and of the curious relation between 'fact' and 'fiction'.
All of the stories are centred around a particular object from everyday life,
some of which are stored in the object library of the gallery. These are labelled
with identification tags and are connected to the cyber library by
a corresponding cataglogue system of numbers and drawings.
The user can feel free to " borrow" a memory by browsing
in real or in virtual space.
"LITTLE STORIES" for READING ROOM, Klaus Hollinetz,1997
SOUND TRACK FOR THE READING ROOM INSTALLATION
ALSO AVAILABLE AS AUDIO CD IN THE READING ROOM CATALOGUE