MarginaliaResidency at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art Marginalia was a project created for a residency at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Eliza Gregory (and participation from Jeffrey Wright and Paul Ramirez Jonas). Done in May 2013, this project activated PICA’s reference library by creating a series of postcards made from images taken in/of the books in their collection. Each postcard has an image taken in a book from a different category in the library. The back of each postcard describes the section, gives a bibliography of the book in which we took the picture, and directs the holder of the postcard to the library itself. In the place we took each picture, we left a question. Questions were chosen from Paul Ramirez Jonas’ list of 100 questions about social practice art. Paul has made his questions into a book that he has given to the library at our request. We also gave a copy of Billy Collins’ poem “Marginalia” to the library. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |