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]
/ www.mdpls.org
With
special guests:
Adalberto Delgado, filmmaker, artist
Gustavo Matamoros, experimental composer, sound artist,
artistic director of isaw / Subtropics
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