Coming Soon: A+W Reading Room, In Three Parts
We'd be remiss if we didn't put your attention to a unique event--the result of a meeting of minds at the recent NADA New York--betwixt Mexico City's library-art-archive-space Aeromoto and Brooklyn's own Wendy's Subway. On June 27, if you're in NYC, make your way to A+WS Reading Room, In Three Parts. Details below.
Thank you for visiting the Aeromoto and Wendy's Subway A+WS Reading Room at NADA New York.
We're thrilled to announce a public program with Aeromoto at Wendy's Subway on Saturday, June 27th, starting at 6pm. SAVE THE DATE!
PART I - 6pm
Book exchange and tunesPART II - 7pm
Discussion with Maru Calva (Mexico-City based Aeromoto co-founder)
Talk by Zanna Gilbert, whose research focuses on artistic production in Latin America, artists' networks, and the transnational circulation of art through the mail.PART III - to follow
Readings and performances by Ian Erickson-Kery, Juan Francisco Maldonado, Masha Tupitsyn, Josephine Shokrian and more...The A+WS Reading Room is a collaboratively-curated library and reading room designed by Tyler Polich and Hannah Wilentz, with a specific focus on artist books, periodicals, and exhibition catalogues by Latin American publishers. Artists, writers, publishers, curators, and readers based in Mexico City, New York, and elsewhere were invited to contribute interventions and responses to the library collection.
Participants and collaborators include:
Ricardo Alzati, Shane Anderson, AVANT.org, Sam Berman, Anne Boyer, Marco Braunschweiler, Francesca Capone, Kevin Cassem, Santiago Da Silva, Shezad Dawood, Ted Dodson, Ian Dreiblatt, Charles Eppley, Gabriel Escalante Davila, Ian Erickson-Kery, Juan Francisco Maldonado, Aaron Gemmill, Myranda Gillies, Sam Gordon, Kayla Guthrie, Dominique Hurth, Gabriela Jáureguí, Eric Kim, Caroline Lazard, Sophia Le Fraga, LL, LLC, Hailey Loman, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Arthur Holland Michel, Carolina Mikalef, Nuria Montiel, Marco Montiel-Soto, Rick Myers, Newspaper Reading Club (Fiona Connor & Michala Paludan), Gabriel Rosas Alemán, Alice Sant’Anna, Paola Santoscoy, Jorge Scobell, Daniela Seel, Chris Sharp, Josephine Shokrian, J. Soto, Martine Syms, Masha Tupitsyn, Rachael M. Wilson, Nathaniel Wolfson, Jessica Wozny, C. Spencer Yeh
Aeromoto is a public lending library in Mexico City, that people can visit to read and explore books and printed material focused on visual art and contemporary culture. Aeromoto is a space-archive that hosts independent editions with a focus on Mexico and Latin America. Aeromoto dreams of a universal and infinite source of book circulation; a time of shared uses against life privatization.