Pulp - A Short Biography of the Banished Book. Vol I Written in the Margins

Pulp examines issues surrounding the destruction of books and libraries, and its first volume sees Rao interviewing individuals and researching sites in Europe connected to current-day manifestations of the phenomenon.

Margins is designed as an interactive installation, involving a series of video interviews indexed by a handmade card catalogue. The footage features a range of testimonies, from those of firefighters who tried to save the burning national library in Sarajevo during Yugoslavia’s troubles of the 1990s, to that of a lector employed to preserve the purity of the Croatian language by expunging all Serbian and Russian words from Croatian national television.