The Serving Library

This spring, Dexter Sinister is busy morphing from a «just-in-time workshop and occasional bookstore» into an non-profit institution-of-sorts called The Serving Library. This involves incorporating (The Serving Library Company, Inc.), describing (A Statement of Intent) and fundraising (here):
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/the_serving_library
The idea is to build on the haphazard, contingent clutter of activities assembled during the five-year lease of our basement space on Ludlow Street in New York (which expires just before the summer) towards a more explicit, coherent set of intentions that can be condensed into the following equation:
«The Serving Library is a cooperatively-built archive that assembles itself by publishing. It will consist of 1. an ambitious public website; 2. a small physical library space; 3. a publishing program which runs through #1 and #2.»
The longer story involves two collections of books and artifacts, an online and printed successor to Dot Dot Dot called Bulletins of The Serving Library, a speculative Foundation Course modeled on the Photoshop Toolbox, a rotating Guest Librarianship, and a 12-year Black Whisky. Further elaboration is offered in A Statement of Intent, available from our existing library:
http://www.dextersinister.org/library.html?id=262

«I don’t complain about institutions! I complain about institutions that I don’t like.» (Michelangelo Pistoletto)

Please circulate this announcement freely.
Regards,
David Reinfurt, Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer