Studio Launch Event: Bervin, Kasper, Riggs

A STUDIO RELEASE PARTY FOR THREE NEW BOOKS FROM UDP
M. Kasper’s Open-Book
Open-Book, An Illustrated Essay, is an accordion-fold of eleven five-line observations on an ancient mode of abstract art, a sublime aspect of authority, known as marble revetment. The texts in Open-Book float on reproductions of marble simulations originally made using photo-manipulation software—anyone can do it, beginning with simple stroke-and-fill drawings, then filtering and re-filtering, as many as dozens of times, letting so-called nature take its course.

Sarah Riggs’s 60 Textos
A companion volume to Riggs’s books 28 Telegrams, 43 Post-Its and 38 Instant Messages, 60 Textos continues the poet’s investigation into the ways affect and technology co-exist. “Texto” is French for “text message,” and these stark, uncanny, often funny poems fleetingly and memorably transform the cell-phone screen into a book.

Jen Bervin’s The Silver Book
Hand-bound silver chapbook. A long poem full of dashes and thanks.

The party takes place in Jen Bervin’s Brooklyn studio, where a newly completed work will be on preview. For more on the installation, click here. Directions to the event are below.

94 Ninth St, 4th Floor, Studio 1
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Public transit: F or G train to Smith & 9th, or R train to 9th St.

It’s on 9th St. between Smith St and 2nd Avenue. It’s a big red brick building; the train goes directly over it. Buzz 4 and take the elevator up.