OPEN Book, 25/26

OPEN Book is a book club. Each season, we select a work related to curation, editing, archives, and community organization. We focus on collections of essays, interviews, and similar formats to allow for easy drop-in month to month. There is no fee to participate, but participants have to get their own copies of materials.

For our inaugural season, we’re going to spend slow time with Obrist’s 2008 interviews collection, A Brief History of Curating. Over a year, we’ll read and discuss its eleven interviews: Anne d’Harnoncourt, Werner Hofmann, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hultén, and Harald Szeemann.

While there is no goal here other than reading and hanging out, OPEN’s nature as an exhibition space may lead to the cohort’s producing some kind of group project.

If you would like to join OPEN Book for the full run or just pop in, please email Ben in advance. The current goal is to begin sometime in October 2025.

OPEN Book, 25/26

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