Video
The video will be shown in various formats:
As silent sequences displayed on information
screens, a longer film screened on set dates,
and on the Odense Library website.
Photos by Brian Kure
www.mbpedersen.org
M. B. Pedersen’s video work Mundaneum shines a light on this cycle. He reveals the inner workings of a library system, following books as they enter the Danish Bibliographic Centre, situated on the outskirts of Copenhagen, and then move between libraries in Odense Municipality, where they are shunted around on conveyor belts and by human hands. When they become too old, worn out, unread or forgotten, they are sent to a department for discarded books.
This strangely absorbing and poetic journey is both humorous and tender. It gives voice to inanimate objects and is a portrait of a society that takes such care of its literature. But it is also funny – the deadpan aesthetic bringing us the geeky, the mundane and the boring.
Tekst af Jes Fernie