Open Ended launch of Bulletins of The Serving Library #5

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

The year is 1970. Which is to say that it is not yet the seventies. The talk show presenter and his guest speakers are, therefore, somewhat standardized: white and male. Because it is 1970, they talk about "the sixties" with false distance. They talk of the student movement with warmth and regret. The words "Auschwitz" and "art" can now coexist in the same sentence. Video cameras shoot the show as if it were a poker game, orbiting seated speakers and hovering over the shoulder of one guest to see the face of another. Light from the spot-lit panelists splashes onto the pale arms, hands, and feet of a cameraman, visible in the dark recesses of the studio, headless ...

Please join us for a screening of "Open End," a talk show that turns into an argument starring Alexander Kluge, introduced from a distance by Isla Leaver-Yap from 6pm (screening begins at 7pm sharp)

at

Goethe-Institut New York
72 Spring Street (between Broadway and Lafayette), ** 11th floor **

in order to launch Bulletins of The Serving Library #5 — on "Germany" — and to celebrate the closing of "The End(s) of The Library," a series of exhibitions curated by Jenny Jaskey

Bratwurst and sauerkraut will be served along with Monkey 47 Schwarzwald dry gin courtesy of the Black Forest distillery Stählemühle, with thanks to Christoph Keller.

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