EVERY DAY THE URGE GROWS STRONGER TO GET HOLD OF AN OBJECT AT VERY CLOSE RANGE BY WAY OF ITS LIKENESS, ITS REPRODUCTION

DAVID REINFURT of Dexter Sinister will talk with LARS FISCHER of Common Room about a recently published short-run “library” book composed of texts previously published online as Portable Document Formats in the Library at http://www.dextersinister.org and commissioned by the Art Libraries Society and Museum of Modern Art for a conference on contemporary artists’ books. Fischer and Reinfurt began discussing this publication and the curious circumstances of contemporary publishing around a lectern last November in Common Room’s installation for New Practices New York. The conversation will continue at Studio-X.

Dexter Sinister is a workshop and bookstore in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side in New York City collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production and distribution into one efficient activity. Common Room is a provisional practice, flexible work environment, exhibition space and publishing imprint located in a small modernist office building, also on New York’s Lower East Side. http://www.common-room.net

When: Tuesday, 2/17, 6:30 pm
Where: Studio-X
  180 Varick Street, Suite 1610
  Between King and Charleton Streets
  1 train to Houston Street

Free and open to the public
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[Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.]