{"title":"Simon Morris","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimon Morris is a British artist and curator whose practice engages with books, reading, and the systems through which knowledge is organised and transmitted. His projects frequently take the form of publications, exhibitions, and institutional interventions that treat the book not as a container of information but as a site of artistic and social activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBibliomania\u003c\/em\u003e (1998–1999), co-curated with Helen Sacoor, invited artists, writers, and theorists to reveal the books that shaped their practices — producing a publication that operates simultaneously as exhibition catalogue, reading list, and collective self-portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications gathered here document Morris's curatorial and artistic projects. 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\/simon-morris.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}