The Gift (2018)

The Gift is a site-specific project that happened at the Swiss Cottage library in London.

As a public place for storing and sharing knowledge, library constantly offers resources to its visitors, mostly for free. However, in this silent space, we seem to always focus on ourselves while paying little attention to the people around us (who share the same space with us), as well as the space we are in. At the same time, the library also knows little about its busy visitors.

Taking Jorge Luis Borges’ metaphor of The Library of Babel, this piece invites the audience to have a playful conversation with the others and the library itself. The audience receive descending balloons with interactive instructions on them and activate the space with their individual responses.