“Burning the Books is a project by artist Alinah Azadeh in collaboration with debtors and creditors everywhere. It offers a moment to reflect on and engage in a dialogue about debt other than the one you may think is on offer. It questions the relationship between measurable, financial debt and other forms such as emotional, psychic, ecological and social debt.
Azadeh acts as debt/story collector and servant to The Book of Debts – one volume per location – which will be intermittently filled, recited and burned in public acts of ‘absolution’ across the UK and beyond.”