The Choreography of Activity
The Roden Library is transformed into a vibrant meeting place where knowledge, creation, and exchange converge.
Within this context, the artwork also takes on a new form: Actions, in which the movement of hands becomes a symbol of learning, making, and connecting.
The work builds on the earlier installation The Book Is Just Around the Corner (Loes Heebink & Shlomo Schwarzberg, 1998). The cast aluminum hands from that piece, forming in sign language the sentence “Where is the book? The book is just around the corner”, are once again integrated into the library’s façade. Positioned high beneath the canopy, they guide visitors from two directions toward the entrance.
In this renewed version, the work gains an additional layer through an interactive video installation in the display window. Images of actions, reading, writing, gesturing, touching, form a poetic choreography of human activity. In this way, the library becomes not merely a place of books, but a HUB of movement and encounter, where the rhythm of hands tells a story of attention, collaboration, and the continuous interplay between people and their environment.
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