{"title":"Helen Sacoor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelen Sacoor is a curator whose work has engaged with the intersection of art, books, and institutional practice. Co-curator of \u003cem\u003eBibliomania\u003c\/em\u003e (1998–1999) with Simon Morris, Sacoor helped shape a project that asked artists, writers, and theorists to make their reading visible — turning the bibliography into exhibition material and the bookshelf into a form of self-portraiture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications gathered here document projects in which Sacoor has been involved as curator or collaborator. Original period items.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"simon-morris-helen-sacoor-bibliomania-1998-1999","title":"Simon Morris \u0026 Helen Sacoor — Bibliomania 1998–1999, 1999","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover publication. 120 pages, 17 × 22 cm. Published 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good vintage condition. Light handling wear and minor shelf rubbing. The marks remain part of the record: evidence of circulation, storage, handling, and transfer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with \u003cem\u003eBibliomania\u003c\/em\u003e, a project that asked artists, writers, curators, and theorists to reveal the books that informed their practices. Contributions include reading lists, bibliographies, archival material, and exhibition-related documentation by figures including Mark Dion, Joseph Kosuth, Victor Burgin, Lucy Lippard, and others working around Conceptual Art, institutional critique, publishing, and information systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication operates somewhere between catalogue, library, exhibition document, and artist's book. Books become portraits. Reading becomes a form of self-description. Bibliography becomes exhibition material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParticularly notable are the reproduced reading lists of Mark Dion and Joseph Kosuth, alongside Michael Farion's unrealised exhibition furniture drawings, which extend the project beyond documentation into the design of how knowledge itself might be stored, displayed, and circulated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA publication about books, but also about the systems that organise them. The artist appears indirectly: through references, influences, annotations, and selection. Identity arrives as a shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn uncommon publication, more visible in institutional holdings than in regular commercial circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53624733106514,"sku":"MORRIS-SACOOR-BIBLIOMANIA-CAT-1999","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Harrison_Wood._Art_in_Theory_1900-1990._1999_front.jpg?v=1780373004"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/helen-sacoor.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}