Installation
Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt), Raimundas Malasauskas, and various artists
Friday and Saturday, 28 Mar 2008 to 29 Mar 2008
Opening Reception Thursday, April 10, 7-9pm Admission Free
Press and member preview and tour with the artists and curators Thursday, April 10, 6-7pm
Introducing Irving as (in no particular order) a writer, lover, prisoner, and film character, Phantom Rosebuds is an autobiography published by Dexter Sinister, a subjective trawl through Irving’s notorious history from his early years as a creative writing teacher, to the Howard Hughes scandal, right up to the moment of the author’s appearance at New Langton Arts. Phantom Rosebuds is produced under the auspices of Dexter Sinister, and published in conjunction with New Langton Arts in San Francisco and Art 2102 in Los Angeles. In the book trade, a “signature” is the name of a single folded down sheet of printed paper, often bound with other signatures and cut to form pages, usually in denominations of 8. The version of Phantom Rosebuds being launched at Langton will take the form of advance signatures: the autobiography will be produced in an edition of 500 on a Dutch stencil printing machine. Then, a couple of months later, the same piece will form the heart of the 16th issue of Dot Dot Dot, the biannual journal also published by Dexter Sinister. The rest of the issue will follow the themes that dominate both Phantom Rosebuds and Orson Welles’ F for Fake: mirroring, shadowing, gaps, parallels, and practical time travel.
Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt) recently established a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street, on the Lower East Side in New York City. The workshop is intended to model a ‘Just-In-Time’ economy of print production, running counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale publishing. This involves avoiding waste by working on-demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production and distribution into one efficient activity. Since 200 they have been editing the fanzine/journal Dot Dot Dot, a magazine concerned with art, design, music, language, literature, and architecture. Stuart Bailey graduated from the University of Reading in 1994 where he studied Graphic Design, followed by studies at the Werkplaats Typografie in 2000. Bailey was part of the first group of participants at the Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1998-2000. He is co-funder with Peter Bilak of Dot Dot Dot magazine (graphic design/visual culture). Bailey is currently based between New York and Amsterdam. David Reinfurt is a graphic designer in New York. Since 2000, he has run O R G inc., a graphic design practice that works for cultural and educational institutions in a range of media. Prior to forming O R G, David was an interaction designer with IDEO San Francisco, where he designed the interface for the MTA MetroCard vending machines. He has been a visiting critic at design schools including University of Texas, Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Yale University, and Royal College of Art.
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