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The Lost Library

By Catherine Wynne-Paton 2015 - 2020

Catherine Wynne-Paton, documented by film-maker Jonathan Zaurin

The Lost Library is an itinerant series of performances which came about as a response to the rapid decline in publicly run libraries in the UK. Attempting to distill what is found in an individual institution into a a joining ritual and the loan of a single word.
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