’17 Ugly Years’ / UDP exhibition and events at PS1
17 UGLY YEARS — Exhibition and Events to Celebrate the Life and Times of Ugly Duckling Presse
From March 4 to March 29, 2010, Artbook @ PS1 will be showing “17 Ugly Years,” an exhibition of publications, projects, and historical ephemera from the archives of Ugly Duckling Presse, a Brooklyn-based arts and publishing collective. Organized thematically, the exhibit will examine several aspects of the Presse’s evolving mission and practice: the role of free labor in collective making; the book as gift or as an (anti)commodity; the development of editorial projects; the play of forms and materials in book design; and the problems of distribution and dissemination. Since the days of the xeroxed Ugly Duckling zine of the early 1990s, UDP has produced more than 200 individual titles — ranging from tiny hand-bound chapbook editions to 700-page tomes — of poetry, artists’ projects, and translation, with a focus on emerging, international and “forgotten” authors. From broadsides and letterpress ephemera to magazines, newspapers and perfect-bound books, UDP’s productions contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.
* all events at PS1 are free with museum admission *
Opening Ceremonies — Sunday, March 7 — Artbook @ PS1 (by the cafe)
4PM: A wine reception with readings by Charles Bernstein, Jen Bervin, Aaron Kiely, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Yuko Otomo.
Artists Books / Paperless Books / Poetry Books — Sunday, March 14 — Artbook @ PS1 (by the cafe)
12PM to 4PM: DEAR DIARY by Yelena Gluzman: a paperless book in which the reader is the diary, and the book is written directly, without paper, into the consciousness of the reader. This book can be read by appointment only, so please emailpaperless@uglyducklingpresse.org to schedule a reading.
4PM: Ben Luzzatto presents The Theory of Everything, Abridged; Yelena Gluzman presents two new Phone Books from UDP’s Paperless Book Department; Poetry reading by Dan Machlin.
5PM Wine Reception.
EMERGENCY PERFORMANCE PARTY
Wednesday, March 17, 7:30pm – Midnight / FREE
@ The Invisible Dog Arts Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn
An evening to benefit a new series of books of contemporary performance with friends of UDP providing tarot readings, film projections, freight elevator excursions, a naked sewing circle, a ukelele, a dance, a tableau vivant, a schizophrenic monolog, musical experiments, special drinks, and more… featuring: Ashcan Orchestra, Deville Cohen, Jim Findlay, Ellie Ga, Kristen Kosmas, Karinne Keithley, Laboratory Theater, Filip Marinovich, Marisol Limon Martinez, Yoshihito Mizuuchi, You Nakai, Jeffrey Joe Nelson, NTUSA, Gaël Peltier, Xenia Rubinos, Mike Taylor & Iki Nakagawa, Urara Tsuchiya, Joey Wyoming, and your hosts, the Bros. Lumiere.
Poetry in/and Performance — Sunday, March 21 — Artbook @ PS1 (by the cafe)
2PM to 4PM: DEAR DIARY by Yelena Gluzman: a paperless book in which the reader is the diary, and the book is written directly, without paper, into the consciousness of the reader. This book can be read by appointment only, so please email paperless@uglyducklingpresse.org to schedule a reading.
4PM: Poetry performances by UDP authors Garrett Kalleberg, Rachel Levitsky, Filip Marinovich, and Elizabeth Reddin.
5PM Wine Reception.
Closing Ceremonies: Screenings & Readings — Sunday, March 28 — Artbook @ PS1 (by the cafe)
3PM: Joel Schlemowitz screens and speaks about his award-winning documentary film, “Loudmouth Collective / Ugly Duckling Presse.”
4PM: Wine Reception and Readings:
– Readings by Peter Gizzi and Steve Dalachinsky;
– A bilingual performance of Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s classic 5 Meters of Poems by Joshua Beckman & Anthony McCann;
– Vanessa Place and Rob Fitterman perform a new work called “NO IDEA”.
These events are presented in conjunction with “17 Ugly Years” — a show of UDP books, ephemera and the history of the Presse, at Artbook@PS1, PS1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, Queens, NY.
DEAR DIARY (by appointment only) at Artbook @ PS1 [below are pictures of Corina Copp reading the book]
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