MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
The Reading Room
A Temporary Space for Artists' Books, Publications and Multiples
Friday, April 9, Noon - 2 p.m.
Main Library, Children's Room, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami
305-375-5048 / [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> / www.mdpls.org
<http://www.mdpls.org>
With special guests:
Adalberto Delgado, filmmaker, artist
Gustavo Matamoros, experimental composer, sound artist, artistic
director of isaw / Subtropics <http://www.subtropics.org/>
Left to itself art would have to be something very simple - it would be
sufficient for it to be beautiful. But when it's useful it should spill
out of just being beautiful and move over to other aspects of life so
that when we're not with the art it has nevertheless influenced our
actions or our responses.
- John Cage, from "The Aesthetics of John Cage: A Composite Interview,"
1987
John Cage made you realize that there wasn't a thing called noise, it
was just music you hadn't appreciated.
- Brian Eno
Safeness lurks wherever we turn... Show me dangerous music.
- Lukas Foss
(all quotes from www.subtropics.org)
On the second Friday of each month, a secret room in the Children's Room
at the Main Library becomes The Reading Room. In this cozy space,
visitors can stop by any time between 12 and 2pm to get up close and
personal with selections from the Library's collection of artists'
books, publications and multiples. Experience these objects without
having to look at them through a display case, engage in conversation
over coffee and cookies, and see living-room style screenings of video
and new media art (usually).
This installment of The Reading Room promises both discussion and
activity. We'll talk about a new project up right now at Sunny Isles
Branch Library: In Parentheses - A Collaborative Site-Specific
Installation by Adalberto Delgado and Maria I. Amores. In Parentheses
uses video, sculpture and sound to explore the relationship between the
interpretation of symbols and their meaning in language. And Gustavo
Matamoros of will temporarily turn the space into an immersive
environment in which to demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of
sound.
For more information about exhibitions and programs at the Miami-Dade
Public Library System, visit
http://mdpls.org/news/exhibitions/exhibitions.asp
<http://mdpls.org/news/exhibitions/exhibitions.asp>
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