Interlude
A short period of time between two longer periods, during which something happens that is different from what has happened before and what follows. A short play, piece of music, or other entertainment performed during a break in the performance of a long work.

The reader’s traces
Books in libraries are public items; many different people read the same copy. Each reader leaves their own traces and marks: a piece of paper used to separate the pages, a note, a train ticket; all become unresolved texts, hinting at something to be disclosed. The discovery of such traces creates an opening, occupying an intermediate space. These interruptions suspend the continuous accumulation of knowledge and force us to enter a new time that has been cut from its original moorings. For one moment the database structure of the library and the narrative experience of reading come together.

Instructions
Each contributor is asked to produce a nomad text, a loose page to be inserted into the books of the libraries. Each contributor is also responsible of the strategy of distribution within the library: whether it is made for a particular section, a particular selection of books, a specific page, or if it is to be given to all the readers in one day, etc. All the inserts were printed and distributed according to the contributor's instructions in public libraries in Berlin, Paris and New York. There is no way of tracing the final outcome of the action, the inserts are planned to be found by accident.