Over the course of the past week, the clicking sound of a typewriter — unfamiliar to modern students — has pierced the silence in Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
Sitting at the welcome desk near the main entrance, artist Tim Youd has been retyping a novel.
This retyping is a performance piece, which goes in tandem with the current exhibition at Hanes Gallery, Movable Type. The performance piece is a part of Youd’s 10-year long project, 100 Novels.
“I’m retyping 100 novels over a 10-year-period,” Youd said. “The books have to been typed by the author. I retype each novel on the same make and model typewriter that the author used and in a location that’s somehow related to the novel or to the author.”
