Footnotes & Print Library

haus.0 creates the print plug-in so that it serves both for resource and inquiry in the artist initiated space, and as a basis for the development of theory and practice. It differs from conventional libraries in how it is organised. The end- and footnotes of specific essays serve as a selection model for a group of books. The process acknowledges and builds on the 1980s return of the essay form in cultural critique, and its defining character in terms of critical practice and cultural studies.
The use of foot- / endnotes of an essay reflect the contemporary logic of hypertext model as noted by the author Sadie Plant in her work on Ada Lovelace in Zeroes and Ones.

The first selection framework was provided by the essay Spatial Narratives (1991) from the architect / theorist Mark Rakatansky. This is an apt selection turning on Freud's idea of the unheimlich applied to avoiding closed models of architectural theory and narrative, and introducing a contemporary 'modelling'.