Cruising Adrian’s Library
Participatory action, curatorial gesture, 2018.
In response to an invitation to guest curate London literary salon Naked Boys Reading, Nemer created a navigational score of the private library of writer Adrian Rifkin and his partner Dénis Echard. The scores were distributed at a party in Rifkin and Echard's garden, inviting guests into the library, instructing them to tune into its affective dimensions, to select a book based on the title's erotic promise, and to transcribe a short passage from within its pages. The literary salon took the form of a durational performance installation shortly thereafter at LUX Moving Image, and involved each garden party guest reading his selected text in various spots throughout the venue.
