STUART BAILEY (of Dexter Sinister) Mon Feb 22, 7pm

About Dexter Sinister:
Opened by David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey in 2006 as a “Just-in-Time Workshop & Occasional Bookstore” in a Ludlow Street basement in New York, the design and publishing collaborative Dexter Sinister collapses categories, functions, and roles. Dexter Sinister combines the characteristically distinct identities of designer, producer, publisher, and distributor. In contrast to the juggernaut of contemporary publishing and its economies of scale, the workshop, according to the artists, “involves avoiding waste by working on demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production, and distribution into one efficient activity."


For the lecture, Stuart Bailey will be presenting the activities of dexter sinister via a sort of reader, though paraphrased rather than copied or quoted, that concerns art/design education. This reader, used not only because the subject matter is of interest for students, but because it "shows how we regularly channel and rechannel texts through the various activities at dexter sinister, how this is maybe the one constant in our work."

Stuart:
"the last 2 weeks we spent in vancouver programming 5 nights of events, which were, in order, a reading, a film, a talk, a translation, and a lecture. these were all, in turn, taken from the text here, as a kind of 3d version of some of the points. my idea for the talk is to do a compressed version of that. so to talk through and give examples of the 5 things, which kind of correspond to 5 other dexter sinister projects. this is sounding more complicated than it is; it should be quite informal. it'll involve some excerpts from films."

I will be distributing the text in pdf format to the MFA list and will also have a few hard copies in the kitchen. please read them before the lecture but, come regardless. Lecture is at 7pm, Feb 22nd at Warner.

Stuart will also be doing studio visits. Signups will be posted Sat. Feb 13th at 11am. the times are as follows:
1:45-
2:30-
3:15-
4:00-
4:45-
5:30-

More on Dexter Sinister:
http://www.dextersinister.org/library.html
http://www.dot-dot-dot.us/