Christina Read

Books I’d like to read (2005)

9 mins 45 (excerpt)Single channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

"I made this scrolling book list video in 2005; it was a list of books I wanted to read (still do)"

Artist's statement

Credits & notes

Music: Mozart’s Fifth Symphony

www.christinaread.com

    Installation view of Books i'd like to read (2005) Christina Read, in AURA Festival of Artist Moving Images (2019). Photo by Jacob Giles

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    The artist reads Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus.

    The Myth of Sisyphus
    Christina Read on CIRCUIT

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    for artist moving image
    practice
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    dialogues
    which reflect our unique, contemporary
    South Pacific context.

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    o Aotearoa, e tuku
    atu ana i ngā mahi toi,
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    Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.