Katherine McLeod in conversation with John Latour by 4thSpace Concordia published on 2021-05-28T20:07:55Z "How to listen to the library? Something that is still reading, but a kind of reading that is engaging all the senses". Katherine McLeod researches archives, sound, and poetry and is an affiliated researcher with the SSHRC-funded partnership of SpokenWeb. Most recently, as a researcher-in-residence at Concordia Library, Katherine is working on “Listening to the Library,” a sensory based investigation into the audio-visual collections of Concordia’s Library. John Latour is the Teaching & Research Librarian in Fine Arts at Concordia University and is a visual artist with an interest in artists’ books and questions of open access. For this episode, we invited Katherine to bring a selection of objects and sound recordings into 4thSpace, hoping to make audible the sounds held within the Concordia Library collections and, simultaneously to engage in conversation with John about ‘reading’ or, rather, hearing the library as somatic.
