Precarious Tasks #15: Exchange of Our Clothes and Books as Exchanging Our Body and Thoughts (Reconfiguration)

Clothes and books are related to our body and thoughts. Just as the clothes we wear carry our personal history through the way that our body fits in them, the books we read carry our personal history through the thoughts we form from their reading. Because of that, we like to talk about what we read, and we take care of the clothes that we wear.

Bring your books and clothes here to exchange with someone else’s. Not the clothes you don’t like but the ones you do. Not the books you don’t read anymore but those you like to read again and again. Your favourite things will be gathered here temporarily, and distributed to others to share in your body and thoughts. In taking home someone else’s belongings, their personal history will become your own.

Koki Tanaka, 5 October 2015

Proposal:

1: Bring your clothes and books here.

2: Take away anything you like from the stall.

3: Take care of these clothes and books as if they are your body and thoughts.