The Annotated Reader

Quartz Studio presents for the first time in Italy “The Annotated Reader” — a publication-as-exhibition and exhibition-as-publication featuring 281 creative and personal responses on a chosen piece of writing.
The core of the project is the idea by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts of inviting contemporary artists, designers, writers, institutional founders, musicians to imagine they’ve missed the last train. “Is there one piece of writing that you would want with you for company in the small hours?” With this in mind, Gander and Watts asked people to submit a text with personal annotations and notes made directly onto it. They collected around 200 contributions including Marina Abramović, Art & Language, Paul Clinton, Tom Godfrey, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Alistair Hudson and Hans Ulrich Obrist.