Tuesdays at Curley's

Welcome to PoemAlley, Stamford, Connecticut's eclectic venue for poets, poetry reading and discussion! Open to anyone living in Fairfield County and the surrounding area, we meet Tuesday nights at 7:30 pm at Curley's Diner on 62 Park Place (behind Target) . Come contribute, get something to eat, or simply listen!



May 30, 2013

Where Books Don’t Circulate, But Imaginations Do

Join Andrew Beccone this evening at the Franklin Street Works as he combines selected text and imagery to bring original, experiental meaning to the Reanimation Library, the current exhibit he founded, which opened at the FSW gallery April 6.

The Reanimation collection specializes in books that have fallen out of routine circulation with more standard institutions, yet transcend factual, cultural or ideological datedness due to their unique, often indelible, visual content. Rescued from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles, the books are now presented as a resource for artists, writers, cultural archaeologists, and other parties seeking new creative inspiration and insight from something old.

Tonight’s “An Incomplete Portrait of the Reanimation Library” will offer several readings, comprised completely of excerpts from FSW branch holdings, married to projected visuals from the Library’s image archive.

The random-access methodology of Beccone’s presentation is both a demonstration of but one way ‘patrons’ can make expressive use of the Library (photocopying and scanning facilities are available), as well as a means to give the collection of the Stamford branch its own voice: (While) “most of it was not intended to be (read aloud)… I have started unearthing small fragments--from a sentence to a few paragraphs--that strike me as particularly unusual."

Tonight’s free performance is one of eight programs Franklin Street Works organized for the art space’s current group exhibition Strange Invitation, which includes the Reanimation Library branch, featuring some 40 locally-sourced titles and artworks by Brooklyn-based artist Pradeep Dalal.

An artist and writer, Dalal’s work was recently included in exhibitions at Higher Pictures in New York and the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark. His reviews and interviews have run in ARTWURL, Teaching Photo and Village Voice.

The performance takes place in the Reanimation Library FSW branch located in the upstairs gallery and cafe space. Strange Invitation runs through June 16.

About the Reanimation Library:
Founded in 2006 in the Brooklyn-based Proteus Gowanus interdisciplinary gallery and reading room, the Reanimation Library is a small Independent Presence Library which, while non-circulating, is open to the public and, beyond encouraging reading and learning, strives to inspire the production of new art, as well. Now represented by five short-term branches in gallery spaces around the country, the next one to open will be in Mexico City this August.

Situated in an old row house near the UCONN campus, Franklin Street Works is less than one hour from New York City via Metro North and about one mile (a 15 minute walk) from the Stamford train station. On-street parking is available on Franklin Street (metered until 6 pm except on Sunday), and paid parking is available nearby in a lot on Franklin Street and in the Summer Street Garage (100 Summer Street), behind Target.


When:
Thursday, May 30, 2013
6:30-8 PM

Where:
Franklin Street Works
41 Franklin Street
Stamford, CT 06901

Contact:
Terri C. Smith, Creative Director
203-253-0404
terri@franklinstreetworks.org 

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