Ecstatic Alphabets/heaps of Language


Book Description

Ecstatic alphabets/Heaps of language is a group exhibition on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 6 to August 27, 2012. It brings together forty-four modern and contemporary artists and artists' groups working in all mediums including painting, sculptutre, film , video, audio, spoken word, and design, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of written and spoken language--visual, arual, and beyond. This book--a volume in the continuing series, Bulletins of the serving library, published by Dexter Sinister--is that artist team's contribution to the exhibition.




Bulletins of the Serving Library #11


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Released to inaugurate The Serving Library's new red, gold, and green space in Liverpool, this issue is both printed in and concerned with color. It includes Emily Gephart's account of the Spectra Poetry Hoax of 1916, a truncated phone call from Dexter Sinister to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the late, great Muhammad Ali discussing skin color in a 1971 TV interview, reflections on the history of Chroma-key green by Lucas Benjamin, a personal history of paint and painting by Amy Sillman, and further contributions by T. E. White, Umberto Eco, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Tamara Shopsin, and James Langdon. Published by The Serving Library, New York Contributors Muhammad Ali, Lucas Benjamin, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Dexter Sinister, Umberto Eco, Emily Gephart, James Langdon, Tamara Shopsin, Amy Sillman, T. E. White




Bulletins of the Serving Library #7


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This issue concerns itself with "numbers," ranging from a brief note on "The Psychology of Number" by John Dewey and John McLellan, to Vincenzo Latronico's historical overview of the ongoing attempt to conjure "truths from thin air" (such as proof of the existence of god). In between are essays and articles by Cory Arcangel, Perrine Bailleux, Rosie Cooper, Dan Fox, Angie Keefer, Mathew Kneebone, James Langdon, Philip Ording, Katherine Pickard, David Reinfurt, and Justin Warsh, plus an indexical book review by the late David Foster Wallace.




The Serving Library Annual 2020/21 (Objects).


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This year's 'Annual' is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library's collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run space in a former welding factory in Ghent, Belgium. Apparently, the sole common denominator of the objects in the collection - which range from paintings, photographs, and LP sleeves, to a can of green paint, a German car license plate, and an ouija board - is to have appeared as illustrations in an issue of The Serving Library Annual or one of its immediate predecessors, Bulletins of The Serving Library or Dot Dot Dot, sometime over the last 20 years. The present volume assembles The Serving Library collection at the time of writing, arranged in chronological order of production, as full-page images with extended captions. 00Exhibition: 019, Ghent, Belgium (16. ? 31.10.2020).




Bulletins of the Serving Library #6


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The Serving Library is a cooperatively-built archive that assembles itself by publishing. The articles in the bulletin were first published online on the Serving Library website. This issue doubles as a retroactive non-catalog for the group exhibition 'White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart' at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (February 6, 2013-July 28, 2013), curated by Anthony Elms.







Appendix Appendix


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Artist's book containing a proposal and scripts for a television series that will use fine art, TV, film, literature, cartoons, etc. to create a conceptual art work.




The Public Library Service


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The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.




Ming Romantic


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How does one begin creating a Chinese typeface? In Ming Romantic: Collected and Bound, design studio Synoptic Office explores this question through a selection of writings, interviews, and historical material collected during the creation of Ming Romantic, a didone-inspired, Chinese typeface. Precedence and tradition, powerful forces in the Chinese imagination, are addressed in the context of contemporary design practice. Visual form, meaning, and technology are considered in how they might be employed to advance the field of Chinese typography.




Tell Me what You Want, what You Really, Really Want


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This first compilation of writings by art critic Jan Verwoert galvanizescentral themes he has been developing in pursuit of a language todescribe art's transformative potential in conceptual, performative andemotional terms. He analyzes the power of public gestures toconstitute communities as well as the pressure to perform that governsthe sphere of creative labor, in order to show how particular artistsperform gestures and invoke community differently. Exploring theemotional power games that shape social relations, Verwoert looks foran alternative ethos of action and feeling, asking: How can a modernistapproach to artistic form as a means of social critique be expandedto fully avow its subliminal affective undercurrents, and produce apleasurably crooked form of criticality in art and writing?