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Title: Enter Liberature
Description: CENTRAL BOOKING welcomes Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer on their first U.S. tour introducing Liberature, a new literary genre that integrates text and the material form of the book into a meaningful whole. Bazarnik and Fajfer, writers and theorists of the movement, present a series of videos about liberatic books and the electronic poem Primum Mobile from Zenon’s poetry volume Ten Letters. They will also be available to talk about their books.
SPECIAL FOR DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL!
Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer are Polish writers and editors of “Liberature†line in Ha!art, a Krakow based publishing house. Their jointly written books Oka-leczenie and (O)patrzenie and theoretical work initiated the liberature movement. They run Liberature Reading Room in Malopolska Institute of Culture in Krakow. Katarzyna also teaches English literature at the Jagiellonian University.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2011-25-09
End Time: 14:00
Title: Enter Liberature
Location: CENTRAL BOOKING
Description: SPECIAL FOR THE DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL!
CENTRAL BOOKING welcomes Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer on their first U.S. tour introducing Liberature, a new literary genre that integrates text and the material form of the book into a meaningful whole. Bazarnik and Fajfer, writers and theorists of the movement, present a series of videos about liberatic books and the electronic poem Primum Mobile from Zenon’s poetry volume Ten Letters. They will also be available to talk about their books.
Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer are Polish writers and editors of “Liberature†line in Ha!art, a Krakow based publishing house. Their jointly written books Oka-leczenie and (O)patrzenie and theoretical work initiated the liberature movement. They run Liberature Reading Room in Malopolska Institute of Culture in Krakow. Katarzyna also teaches English literature at the Jagiellonian University.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2011-01-24
End Time: 18:40
Title: Art: Color and Optics
Location: CENTRAL BOOKING
Description: Admission: $5
In connection with the exhibition Now You See it… Color and the Mind’s Eye, this panel discussion features participating artists Kirsten Hoving, Jo Yarrington and Adrienne Klein (moderator) who discuss the influence that color and the properties of optics have on their art making. Dr. Edward Vessel (neuroscientist) joins them as he elucidates the science behind the brain and aesthetic experience.
Adrienne Klein (moderator) is co-Director of the Science & the Arts series at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is incoming Chair of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum, an affiliated society of the College Art Association. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the book Confronting Mortality with Art and Science (VUB Press, Brussels, Belgium).
Kirsten Hoving’s research interests revolve around her teaching fields at Middlebury College: modern art and history of photography. She has published widely on surrealism, with a particular interest in the intersection between surrealist art and science, as seen in her recent book, Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars, published by Princeton University Press in 2009.
Jo Yarrington is a Professor of Studio Art in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University. Her drawings, photographs, and architecturally-based installations have been shown internationally. Sites for exhibitions of her work in the U.S.A. include the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, the DeCordova Museum and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Dr. Edward Vessel trained in neuroscience at USC and is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Brain Imaging, New York University. His research interests include investigating the neural basis for aesthetic judgment and visual preferences as well as developing behavioral, psychophysiological, and imaging techniques for measuring preferences, aesthetic responses and information seeking.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2011-10-13
Title: Art: Color and Optics
Location: CENTRAL BOOKING
Description: Admission: $5
In connection with the exhibition “Now You See it… Color and the Mind’s Eye,” this panel discussion features participating artists Kirsten Hoving, Jo Yarrington and Adrienne Klein (moderator) who discuss the influence that color and the properties of optics have on their art making. Dr. Edward Vessel (neuroscientist) joins them as he elucidates the science behind the brain and aesthetic experience.
Adrienne Klein (moderator) is co-Director of the Science & the Arts series at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is incoming Chair of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum, an affiliated society of the College Art Association. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the book Confronting Mortality with Art and Science (VUB Press, Brussels, Belgium).
Kirsten Hoving’s research interests revolve around her teaching fields at Middlebury College: modern art and history of photography. She has published widely on surrealism, with a particular interest in the intersection between surrealist art and science, as seen in her recent book, Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars, published by Princeton University Press in 2009.
Jo Yarrington is a Professor of Studio Art in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University. Her drawings, photographs, and architecturally-based installations have been shown internationally. Sites for exhibitions of her work in the U.S.A. include the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, the DeCordova Museum and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Dr. Edward Vessel trained in neuroscience at USC and is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Brain Imaging, New York University. His research interests include investigating the neural basis for aesthetic judgment and visual preferences as well as developing behavioral, psychophysiological, and imaging techniques for measuring preferences, aesthetic responses and information seeking.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2011-11-13
Title: Jae Rossman: Reflections on a Decade at the Yale University Arts Library
Location: CENTRAL BOOKING
Description: For over 10 years, Jae Rossman has been developing collections and programming at the Yale University Arts Library. Learn about the collections that comprise its holdings, including book art, theater, and a special focus on color. Rossman will also discuss trends in the use of the collections and the programming of the new Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2011-10-06
Title: Brooklyn Book Festival
Location: Borough Hall
Link out: Click here
Description: Come visit us at Booth 97
The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City presenting an array of literary stars and emerging authors who represent the exciting world of literature today. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart, diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2011-11-18
End Time: 18:00
Title: Liberature: a New Dimension of Literature
Location: CENTRAL BOOKING
Description: Admission: $5
An event just in time for the Brooklyn Book Festival! CENTRAL BOOKING welcomes Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer on their first U.S. tour (and only New York stop) introducing Liberature, a new literary genre that integrates text and the material form of the book into a meaningful whole. Although the books are literary works, they trespass editorial conventions and often come in uncommon shapes. Bazarnik and Fajfer, writers and major theorists of the movement, will present their ideas about writing and show exciting examples of this new form, liberature. They also invite all to join in a poetry reading from Zenon’s latest liberatic volume ten letters.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2011-09-18
Title: Now You See It… Color and the Mind’s Eye
Description: Last day of exhibition
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2011-10-23
Title: Now You See It… Color and the Mind’s Eye
Description: This exhibition brings together a group of artists through the exploration of color who examine the eye, who play with sight, who have us wonder at what it is we are seeing, or who question the how?
Participating artists:
David Ambrose, Chuck Close, Martha Hayden, Kirsten Hoving, Katherine Jackson, Adrienne Klein, Ruth Lingen, Gareth Long, Julie Shaw Lutts, Gerhard Mantz, Sarah Stengle, Jessica Stockholder, Paul Tecklenberg, Kate Temple, Peter Thomashow, W. David Powell, Jo Yarrington, Nola Zirin
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2011-09-15
End Time: 20:00
Title: GRAND OPENING
Location: CENTRAL BOOKING at 1Thirty9
Link out: Click here
Description: CENTRAL BOOKING has a new satellite space (still in Brooklyn) at 1Thirty9 Atlantic Avenue! We are pleased to be working with the other artists and artisans of 1Thirty9 as it opens its doors. Sneak a preview of things to come, in the fall we will also be taking over the back gallery space, curated by yours truly. More on that as it nears….
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2011/05/30
