The Book of Babel
Josh Ginsburg
Artwork 2009
Artwork: Josh Ginsburg, The Book of Babel (2009). Found book, leather, micro-controller and accelerometer. Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Josh Ginsburg Title The Book of Babel Date 2009 Materials Found book, leather, micro-controller and accelerometer Credit Courtesy of the artist

This artwork was loaned to the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance curated by Kathryn Smith and Roger van Wyk, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, December 12, 2009–February 28, 2010. It is indexed here as part of Smith and Van Wyk’s revisiting of the Dada South? Archive of materials at A4 Arts Foundation.

The Book of Babel was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' short story The Library of Babel from the collection Labyrinths (1941).

To locate Book A, consult first a Book B which indicates A's position; to locate Book B consult first a Book C, and so on to infinity...
– Borges

The work formed part of Ginsburg's solo show On the Line is In, which investigated indeterminacy, improvisation, rule-making and rule-following.

b.1981, Cape Town

A4 Arts Foundation Director.

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