Contributions by Albert Angelo, Mark Beasley, Rhea Dall and Charlotte Johannesson, Dexter Bang Sinister, Diedrich Diederichsen, The Digital Theatre, Hollis Frampton, Lars Bang Larsen, Francis McKee, Malcolm Mooney and Jan Verwoert, Rob Giampietro
This bulletin annotates a projected wall text (shown on the cover) that introduced the research program “Dexter Bang Sinister” at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Devised by Stuart Bailey, Lars Bang Larsen, Angie Keefer, and David Reinfurt, the program, like this bulletin, was based on Larsen’s just-completed PhD dissertation at the University of Copenhagen, A History of Irritated Material: Psychedelic Concepts in Neo-Avantgarde Art. The idea was to contrive a popular version of his academic thesis by editing it psychedelically.
This might sound simple, or at least simple-minded, as a textual exercise in psychedelia’s familiar imperatives: Jimi Hendrix’s “Are you experienced?,” Ken Kesey’s “Did you pass the Acid Test?,” or Timothy Leary’s “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” But the irony of psychedelic essences and injunctions should be lost on no one. It’s the self-contradictory voice of the psychedelic police, and on this beat you’ll always find a policeman who enforces a multicolored patriarchal law: “LSD ID, please—we need to check how free you really are …” This is hardly a new nor a very profound observation, just transgression’s age-old contradiction: the necessity of invoking the law in order to sin against it.
The real irony, though, is how the law returns to psychedelia in the form of categorical imperatives, platitudes, and pigeonholes. If we strip away the usual clichés of psychedelic representation—excess, overload, rainbows, tie-dye—what’s left? What’s worth keeping? What does a hollowed-out, desaturated, low-grade, root-level, emphatically black-and-white psychedelia look and feel like? The closer we looked, the more it became apparent that such austere gears had been the psychedelic movement’s means all along—and so black and white seemed an even more pertinent point of return from which to usefully depart once more. From this vantage, how might that look and feel be put to proper use—that’s to say, transformed—artistically and socially today? This brings us back to the immediate question: what could it mean to edit a thesis on psychedelia psychedelically, without recourse to drugs? How does the TRIP translate to METHOD?
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Bulletins of The Serving Library #3
Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt (Eds.)
With contributions by Andrew Blum, Bruno Latour, Graham Meyer, Pierre-André Boutang, David Reinfurt, Chris Evans, Jessica Winter, Ian Svenonius, Angie Keefer, Francis McKee, Benjamin Tiven, Louis Lüthi, Dexter Sinister, and Laura Hoptman
This issue of Bulletins of the Serving Library doubles as a catalog of sorts to “Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language,” a group exhibition curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 6 to August 27, 2012. It is a *pseudo*-catalog in the sense that, other than a section of images at the back, it bears no direct relation to the works in the exhibition. Instead, the bulletins extend in different directions from the same title, and could be collectively summarized as preoccupied with the more social aspects of Typography.
Video trailer, assembled from thirteen texts in the catalog.
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is assembled from PDFs of THE FIRST/LAST NEWSPAPER (TF/LN)
which was issued from Port Authority in New York CIty
every Wednesday & Saturday during the first 3 weeks
of November 2009
- Editorial, Sinister to establish “First/Last” newspaper
- Rob Giampietro, Newspaper tax levied: few can afford daily 6 pence
- Richard Rodriguez, Review: museum piece
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #1: Picture an image of a photograph
- Anon., Publick occurrences both forreign and domestick
- Dan Fox, Circulation +2.7%/-0.2%
- Bruno Munari, Culture today becoming mass affair
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 1
- Angie Keefer, Large Hadron collider expected to fail due to backwards causation
- Editorial, Two men describe “bloody good elephant”
- Rob Giampietro, Time captcha’d for global good?
- Anthony Huberman, Blind man in dark room looking for black cat that’s not there
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #2: They came to see who came
- Angie Keefer, Icons govern action
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 2: More news from nowhere
- Jan Verwoert, Gonzo pragmatism
- Nick Paumgarten, The pits
- Editorial, Fifth wall of fifth estate collapses
- Rob Giampietro, New legislation combats chicken-egg problem
- Angie Keefer, Exception that proves rule, wrong
- Graham Meyer, Classic pyramid inverted
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #3: How television stopped delivering people
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 3: Wild time in Florida
- Frances Stark, No values
- E.C. Large, The semantic discipline
- Ryan Holmberg, Imperial typepicter
- Editorial, Engineer & tinkerer caught in bricolage
- Rob Giampietro, “Puissant god” reviewed: “man, after all”
- Joe Scanlan, Where does your money come from?
- Albert Sukoff, Record bites dust
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #4: “You are not a very nice girl …”
- Dan Fox, May need rewrite
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 4: Some die, some get hurt, some go on
- Jan Verwoert, Socrates: guard up, pants down
- Seth Price, First/Last taken from commons
- Angie Keefer, Non-existence neither proved nor disproved
- Paul Elliman, Rider four seven communicate
- Editorial, Mass innoculation against bacteria of doubt
- Rob Giampietro, Cap’n Sellers’s pen name stolen
- Tom McCarthy, How Marinetti taught me how to write
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #5: Spiderman in world wide web
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 5: The bastards are making it up!
- Paul Elliman, Looking for male blue jeans black jacket
- Angie Keefer, Two temporal logics tried, tested
- Walead Beshty, Itself feels like end of something
- Editorial, Prior temporal logic, tired
- Rob Giampietro, Remington launches ghostwriter
- Paul Elliman, Hey Manhattan
- Snowden Snowden, Much fussed over pussy
- Steve Rushton, How media masters reality #6: Correct me if i’m wrong
- Graham Meyer, 0 ÷ 0 → 0
- Dan Fox, Patience, fortitude remain lions
- Angie Keefer, Twenty questions inverted
- Frances Stark, Corduroy pillows make headlines
- Francis McKee, Headless body, topless bar pt. 6: Whose throat can i eat?
- Jan Verwoert, Unicorn: “I exist”
- and throughout: Will Holder, The Middle of Nowhere Chapter 9 cont’d
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In this issue:
D/S present PARALLEL introductions
Richard Hollis on the EYE and the EAR
James Goggin itemizes ways of reading in London, 2008 with Maria Fusco, Will Holder, Richard Hollis, Maki Suzuki and Jörg Heiser
Will Holder speaks of the poetics of concrete poetry and documenting the work of Falke Pisano
Stefan Themerson & Language – a film by Erik van Zuylen introduced by Mike Sperlinger
Dan Fox plays an extended version of Refracted Light Through Armoury Show
Jennifer Higgie reads from Carnival Theory, a play-in-progress with Johnny Vivash
Agency presents Specimen 0880: Papa Hemingway
David Reinfurt explains NaÏve Set Theory with an overhead projector
Malcolm McLaren (in absentia) is interviewed by Mark & Stephen Beasley (in absentia)
Stuart Bailey – describes the Science, Fiction of E.C. Large with Will Holder and David Reinfurt
plus
Alex Klein – Portrait of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, New York City, May 2008
Mitim (Eta) by Radim Peško
Walead Beshty – Beshty’s Possible Triangle, 2008
Dexter Sinister – Beshty’s Possible Triangle, 2008
Janice Kerbel – Remarkable, 2008
and
The Middle of Nowhere, Chapter 8 by Will Holder
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