Reading ours

Reading ours https://readingours.com Reading ours Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:34:26 +0000 https://readingours.com en Splash https://readingours.com/Splash Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:01:33 +0000 Reading ours https://readingours.com/Splash <img width="525" height="525" width_o="525" height_o="525" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d71c303ff7da2bc3bc3304c5a638dd476a40ce2c298a555ac9fe0d1ae188e9e/ReadingOursblack.gif" data-mid="27079496" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/525/i/1d71c303ff7da2bc3bc3304c5a638dd476a40ce2c298a555ac9fe0d1ae188e9e/ReadingOursblack.gif" /> Manifesto https://readingours.com/Manifesto Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:34:25 +0000 Reading ours https://readingours.com/Manifesto Because publications are affordable. Because we’d like to set time aside to read with others on the weekend. Because a gallery can be anywhere. Because free libraries are central to public education and open societies. Because we’d like the entire run of TDR, Womanspirit, or Rags. Because the Surrealist Manifesto, The Scum Manifesto, Thomas Paine, The Ten Point program, and every other liberatory text ever reproduced. Because a well considered single object can contain the world. Because media is mass. Because distribution is an agricultural term that means to spread seeds. Because communities form around meaning. Because the bookshop is usually the most engaging spot in the museum. Because cheap art. Because our culture is modest, ambitious, and inviting. Info https://readingours.com/Info Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:34:26 +0000 Reading ours https://readingours.com/Info Reading Ours is a micro-gallery celebrating the book, published objects, the history of publication, and the reader. It’s a place for big ideas from a small garage in Los Angeles. Reading Ours supports slow-speed and curious reading of art-like objects, and art. Reading Ours is a place for micro-publishers, children, DIY culture, and publication. Reading Ours is interested in an effective object, an issue, a book, a magazine, issues, books, magazines, micro-cultures, subcultures, countercultures, the worlds and networks distribution defines and makes.Additionally Reading Ours hosts The Book Kitten, a minor space in this micro-gallery created by and for minors. Reading Ours is founded by Robby Herbst and Kimberly Varella. To find Reading Ours email readingours@gmail.com for address. Events https://readingours.com/Events Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:34:26 +0000 Reading ours https://readingours.com/Events <img width="2746" height="3604" width_o="2746" height_o="3604" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2a6a0d684bce47a572d1039f9b84d5112e5587ef89c5bc0c9a82194c13415b7/Paper-Space-Ship-BW.jpg" data-mid="56249371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2a6a0d684bce47a572d1039f9b84d5112e5587ef89c5bc0c9a82194c13415b7/Paper-Space-Ship-BW.jpg" /> Operation Manual for the Worlds Largest Paper Spaceship Saturdays, 12–4pm December 14, 21, 2019 and January 4, 11, 18, 2020 Curatorial walkthroughSaturday, December 14, 1:30pm Related Events Most Saturdays at 1:30pm (details tbd) Message for location It’s a 12 x 10 foot poster, as a magazine, distributed as issue #13 of the Deschool Primer in 1974. It’s as if Mad Magazine met with Peter Max who met the Halprins, who met Dick Higgins, and they all had a conversation with Stewart Brand. A billboard printer printed one hundred copies, and its colors are still vibrant. Trust me, it’s celestial, and I’m not sure it’s meant for the classroom or the art museum. The poster’s central image of a spacecraft is framed by two sets of directions; one describing possible uses for the preposterously sized illustration; the other is twelve imaginative suggestions on how the illustration itself couls be used. Zephyros published sixteen issues of the Deschool Primer between 1972 and 1975. It’s best described as a magazine meant for educators (of all stripes) interested in teaching to liberate. It’s strongly representative of the rich Bay Area counter-cultural brew, where humanistic ideology and active counter-power mixed to make interdisciplinary forms aiming to trouble and advance society. Zephyros was affiliated with a collection of highly idiosyncratic Bay Area organizations interested in expanding human knowledge; among them The Whole Earth Catalog, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Farallones Institute, The Peoples Computer Company, Sunflower Source, and the New Games Foundation. Reading Ours looks forward to sharing “Operation Manual For the Worlds Largest Paper Spaceship” with you along with other items in the Zephyros Universe. EventsSaturdays, 1:30pmStay posted for updatesImage caption: Advertisement in Zephros catalog for Deschool Primer, no. 13, c. 1974