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Shadows and Outlines

Sep 25, 2012
6:30–8 pm

New York, NY, USA
ICI Curatorial Hub

401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013

The Reanimation Library is a small, independent public library based in Brooklyn. It is a collection of books that have fallen out of routine circulation and been acquired for their visual content. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales and throwaway piles, and given new life as a resource for artists, writers and cultural archaeologists.

Shadows and Outlines is a set of short readings made up entirely of excerpts from the library's holdings paired with projected images from its image archive. Sequenced, unmediated fragments of found text and an accompanying stream of decontextualized images will provide a personalized, fractured and incomplete portrait of the wide-ranging attitudes, ideologies and visual systems contained within the collection. Join us to hear readings by Reanimation Library founder Andrew Beccone and three guest readers—writers Sarah Gentile, Sarah Giovanniello, and John Reed.

This event is free and open to the public, though seating is limited. Please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with Reanimation Library in the subject field.

For more information contact Misa Jeffereis at misa@curatorsintl.org.

Presenters
Sarah Giovanniello

Sarah Giovanniello is an independent curator, writer and researcher from Washington, DC, by way of Philadelphia.

John Reed

John Reed is the author of multiple novels and his work has been published in numerous outlets, including Art in America, Artforum, Vice Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times.

Andrew Beccone

Andrew Beccone, an artist and librarian, is the founder and director of the Reanimation Library.

Sarah Gentile

Sarah Gentile is an archivist, writer, and feminist living in Brooklyn, NY.


Credits

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.