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elsewhere The Living Library Opening 5/4

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Opening Friday May 4th, the Living Library is a public studio for storytelling, book arts, screen printing, experimental publishing, and live radio broadcast in Elsewhere’s thrift-store turned living museum.
The Library contains more than 3000 titles, and brings together Elsewhere’s international artists-in-residence and Greensboro to use this collection of vintage and thrift books for reading and resource, offering a comfortable platform for sharing ideas and creative research. The Living Library re-imagines a library as a living fiction and community archive that evolves as the public participates and contributes.
Elsewhere’s writers-in-residence The Hollow Earth Society will inaugurate the Living Library with a salon series:Elsewhen | The Chronotextual Library. The Hollow Earth Society believes that a library isn’t a place where physical books house stories – it’s a story that happens to house a number of physical books. Be a part of the Living Library and share your story. Contact us to get involved!

Public Studios
Public visitors can:

  • Read and explore books, periodicals and documents from the collection
  • Broadcast online with Elsewhere Community Broadcast TV
  • Participate in Library Playshops (See more info below)
  • Do their homework in an installation

Members can:

  • Use Zine-Making and Print making facilities
  • Scan the Library’s archives of images and text
  • Use the Library as a Meeting Space
  • Propose collaborative interventions and projects

Via Primary Flight

Primary Flight KENTON PARKER Exhibition

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Miami gallery space Primary Flights had a recent exhibition showcasing Kenton Parker’s work including his remake of the Taco Shop.  The show lasted from October 11th until the 5th of November. If you were not able to pass by we have a run of images of the recap after the jump.

Kenton Parker is vulnerable. Kenton Parker is approachable and clever, but most importantly, Kenton Parker is human. His works (paintings, sculptures, drawings, installation, and video), conceptual in nature, are inspired by an honest response to humanity, perversion, attitude, and the intellect commonly associated with rebellion. Parker’s creative process exists on multiple plains. Hidden away in Parker’s studio, you find basic text, simple concept, amusements, sexual deviation, and human response crudely written over thousands of sheets of paper. Each concept fragile as the next, Parker cultivates these documentations into refreshing contemporary works that take cue from his daily adjustments.

“It takes all this to be me”, Parker’s first solo exhibit since 2007, is selected works from the past four years with a majority of the body inspired by his life in the past ten months. Pulling immensely from everything Los Angeles, his prolific role as the proprietor of an LA taco shop, and his ironic passage through his own personal history.

Where you find Kenton Parker, you find a well of friendly energy, misconduct, and a rich taste of artistic integrity.

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