World Book Night 2023 - We Remember: We Remember Public Telephone Boxes

For World Book Night 2023, WBN United Artists invited people via an open call, to read one or all of the following texts, and consider how they might represent a memory that could be used to create a shared experience, a coming together of voices from the past and present.

I Remember by Joe Brainard

I Remember (Je me souviens) by Georges Perec

I Remember, I Remember by Mary Ruefle

112 contributions were sent to us from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA.

The exhibition will be on show at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK from 20th April – 30th September 2023.

WBN 2023 is curated and organised by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr.