re: Where Art Belongs

rooftop/reading/rainbow/release party

Thursday, June 23 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Featuring:
- Free copies of the re: Where Art Belongs project!
- Readings by some of the project's forty seven participants!
- You can hold it in your hand, this thing is so in print!!
- At the rooftop release party you'll also be able to hold in your hand:
a veggie dog and a brewskie a lil something sweet for dessert too...

 

Sent to FLUXspace’s listserv, Mid- March, 2011:

“An individual donor is providing copies of Where Art Belongs for everyone interested in reading and responding to the text. Please send your name and mailing address to m*******r@gmail.com, and from there we can order all the copies amazon’s independent booksellers have to offer.

Once you receive this attractive slim text, read away.

And respond! Max 250 words plze.

Your distinct responses will be collected and published, side by side, on a broadside. A collectively penned reply will make the most of Kraus's essays and our time with them…”

We got an exciting amount of response to the offer, and had to slightly change the course of the project as a result. Turns out, even with the restricting word limit, forty-six voices don’t quite fit on a poster-sized sheet! In any case, the purpose remains the same - to get a couple of copies of an interesting new book (Where Art Belongs) published by an interesting press (Semiotext(e)) out into the world and have a collective response that would be printed and then distributed for free.

The title of the volume drew most of us in (us= independently functioning readers, no book club attendance required), and its pocket size kept it immediate (the dimensions of this pamphlet mirror WAB’s), while its contents were controversial enough to give us something to chew on.

So, here are your/our printed words, to be distributed generously both locally and as far away as you can get it!

************

This project wouldn’t have been possible without Melissa McFeeters’ design abilities, and everyone who thoughtfully read and responded to our offer and the book itself. Let’s all have a beer and a bite together sometime soon.

If you’d like to find out more about this or other FLUXspace projects, the most fun way to do so is to visit or write us at 3000 N Hope Street, Philadelphia, PA 19133.

For more information on this show, contact info[at]thefluxspace[dot]org.