Bulletins of The Serving Library

Bulletins of The Serving Library is a composite printed / electronic publication from the duo Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt, that follows a direct line from Dot Dot Dot, the semi-annual journal founded in 2000 and published by Dexter Sinister. Across the arts and into philosophy, the “bulletins” that make up each issue are first published online as PDFs at www.servinglibrary.org over a six-month period, then assembled, printed and distributed separately in Europe (by Sternberg Press) and in the U.S.A. (by Dexter Sinister). Each collection makes up a semester's worth of loosely-themed material, with its constituent PDFs grouped together on the website.
The Bulletins ran from 2011 to 2017.
 
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2017
English edition
This issue discusses the various outlooks of the term “perspective”—from a particular opinion to an axonometric projection.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2016
English edition
Special color issue.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2016
English edition
Issue #10 of Bulletins of The Serving Library comes back with a new formula and draws up an overall review of previous issues.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2015
English edition
Issue number nine tackles all manner of sports and games, providing commentary on their language, politics, and philosophies.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2015
English edition
Produced under the auspices of the exhibition “Transmitting Andy Warhol” at Tate Liverpool, this issue includes a history of the relations between drugs and groups by Ian Svenonius, an e-mail exchange between Paul Elliman and pioneer of voice synthesis Richard T. Gagnon, a collage of voices that conjure Warhol's aura by Michael Bracewell...
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2015
English edition
This issue concerns itself with “numbers,” ranging from a brief note on “The Psychology of Number” by John Dewey and John McLellan, to Vincenzo Latronico'ss historical overview of the ongoing attempt to conjure “truths from thin air” (such as proof of the existence of god).
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2014
English edition
This issue poses as a retroactive non-catalog for the group exhibition “White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart” at the Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania curated by Anthony Elms. As such, its nominal theme is Fashion.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2013
English edition
Conceived while in residency at the library of the Goethe-Institut New York, this issue of Bulletins of The Serving Library used the context of the hosting institution as a thematic starting point. Germany, and often the author's specific relationship to the German language, is the unifying thread that unites these diverse pieces.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2013
English edition
Devised by Stuart Bailey, Lars Bang Larsen, Angie Keefer, and David Reinfurt, this bulletin is based on Larsen's just-completed PhD dissertation at the University of Copenhagen, A History of Irritated Material: Psychedelic Concepts in Neo-Avantgarde Art. The idea was to contrive a popular version of his academic thesis by editing it psychedelically.
Bulletins of The Serving Library - Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
2013
English edition
sold out
An extension of the exhibition "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language," curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2012
English edition
Second issue of the biannual publication from Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt (Dexter Sinister): contributions by Dimmi Davidoff, Július Koller, Fischli & Weiss, Rob Giampietro, Anthony Huberman, Junior Aspirin Records, Perri MacKenzie, David Senior, Jan Verwoert.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2011
English edition
The new biannual publication from Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt (Dexter Sinister), which continues where the final issue of their previous house journal Dot Dot Dot left off.
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