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:
41 Franklin Street
Stamford, CT 06901
Contact:
Terri C. Smith, Creative Director
203-253-0404
terri@franklinstreetworks.org 203-253-0404
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