A Wendy's Subway Wrap-Up

Our stages may be dark, but there's still plenty going on here in Fort Greene. The Wendy's Subway Reading Room, for instance, remains on display through this coming Sunday, January 28 and is FREE and open to the public all weekend from 12—5pm. The space, located in the BAM Fisher Lower Lobby at 321 Ashland Place, features literature selected by international, independent, and artist-run libraries, as well as a collection of books selected by last season's Next Wave Festival performers and visual artists. Below, we highlight some of our favorite pieces from the visual and performing artist-curated reading lists. For highlights from donating libraries, be sure to peruse the #WSxBAM hashtag on Instagram.

VISUAL ARTISTS

Corey Escoto: 

• Terror from the Air by Peter Sloterdijk, trans. Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran
  Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009 (first published in German in 2002)
• Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversation with Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler
  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009

Andy Meerow:

• Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan
  New York: Primary Information / Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016
• Police Heads by Whitney Claflin
  New York: Dasmundt, 2015

Hayal Pozanti:

• Art Power by Boris Groys
  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013
• Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetic After Code by Carolyn L. Kane
  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014

Hayal Pozanti's 55 (Hundreds of people with magnetic implants, worldwide), 2016.
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery.

Sara Greenberger Rafferty:

• Human 3.0 Reading List 2015-2016 by Cauleen Smith
  Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2016
• 1:1 by David Kennedy Cutler
  New York: Paper Cuts, 2017

Kim Schoen:

• Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein, ed. Seth Perlow
  San Francisco: City Lights (first published in 1914)
• MATERIAL, issues 1-4, eds. Ginny Cook and Kim Schoen
  Los Angeles: MATERIAL Press, 2007-2012

Siebren Versteeg:

• Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by Musa Mayer
  New York: Da Capo Press, 1997
• Open Sky by Paul Virilio, trans. Julie Rose
  London: Verso Books, 2008 (first published in French in 1995)

Olivier Py Sings Les Premiers Adieux de Miss Knife. Photo: Rebecca Greenfield 

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Olivier Py:

• Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet, trans. Bernard Frechtman
  New York: Grove Press, 1966 (first published in French in 1946 )

Maira Kalman:

• Vertigo by W.G., Sebald, trans. Michael Hulse
  New York: New Directions, 2016 (first published in German in 1990)

John Heginbotham:

• My Favorite Things by Maira Kalman
  New York: Harper Design, 2014

Germaine Acogny:

• Aimé Césaire, The Collected Poetry, trans. Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith
  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984

Manual Cinema:

• Visual and Other Pleasures by Laura Mulvey
  Gordonsville, VA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Cynthia Oliver:

• From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity by Miles White
  Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011

Xavier Cha:

• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
  London: Penguin, 2010 (first published in 1956)

Xavier Cha's Buffer. Photo: Rebecca Smeyne

Bruce Guthrie and Scott Graham:

• Brecht on Theater: The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht, ed. and trans. John Willett
  New York: Hill and Wang, 1977 (first published in 1964)

Thaddeus Phillips:

• The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment by Lawrence Halprin
  New York: George Braziller, 1970

Rachel Dickstein:

• The Elephant Vanishes: Stories by Haruki Murakami, trans. Jay Rubin
  New York: Vintage, 1994 (first published in Japanese in 1980-1991)

Zvi Sahar and Leslie Strongwater:

• The Nimrod Flipout, by Etgar Keret, trans. Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston
  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 (first published in Hebrew in 2002)

Suzanne Bocanegra:

• The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym
  New York: Basic Books, 2002

The Wendy's Subway Reading Room is open every day from noon—5pm through this Sun, Jan 28. For more information on Wendy's Subway, visit their website at http://wendyssubway.com/