Come, see and experience this brand new art installation on campus: Pantheon. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.... This work by artist Henk Schut is part of the University Library's project Omboeken.
The inspiration for this installation are the personal stories by VU students, researchers, lecturers and staff, who tell about a book that inspires them. On the outside, the art work looks like a circular bookcase, but it also features an entrance to the inside. Once inside, the installation offers an environment that you can retreat to. An 'in-between space', where you can listen and open up to the stories by (fellow) students and researchers and the accompanying world of sound. At intervals voices will chime in, telling about a specific book, at other times, you will hear an emerging audio world. This constantly changing, varying soundscape stimulates the imagination. On leaving the installation you may see the campus in a new light...