Two links in advance of The Serving Library

[open-reading-group at o-r-g.com]

Fellow readers,

This spring, Dexter Sinister is busy morphing from a "just-in-time 
workshop and occasional bookstore" into an non-profit institution-of-sorts 
called The Serving Library. This involves incorporating (The Serving 
Library Company, Inc.), describing (A Statement of Intent) and fundraising 
(here):

http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/the_serving_library

The idea is to build on the haphazard, contingent clutter of activities 
assembled during the five-year lease of our basement space on Ludlow 
Street in New York (which expires just before the summer) towards a more 
explicit, coherent set of intentions that can be condensed into the 
following equation:

"The Serving Library is a cooperatively-built archive that assembles 
itself by publishing. It will consist of 1. an ambitious public website; 
2. a small physical library space; 3. a publishing program which runs 
through #1 and #2."

The longer story involves two collections of books and artifacts, an 
online and printed successor to Dot Dot Dot called Bulletins of The 
Serving Library, a speculative Foundation Course modeled on the Photoshop 
Toolbox, a rotating Guest Librarianship, and a 12-year Black Whisky. 
Further elaboration is offered in A Statement of Intent, available from 
our existing library:

http://www.dextersinister.org/library.html?id=262

"I don't complain about institutions! I complain about institutions that I 
don't like." (Michelangelo Pistoletto)

Please circulate this announcement freely.

Regards,
David Reinfurt, Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer
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