[Reader-list] Eugene Presents--a collaborative publication

[Vivek Narayanan]

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Subject: 	Eugene Presents--a collaborative publication
Date: 	Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:00:16 -0400
From: 	Ranbir Sidhu <ranbirny at yahoo.com>
To: 	Ranbir Sidhu <ranbirny at yahoo.com>



Greetings,

This is to let you know about and invite you to join a collaborative
project/publication I'm involved in. Full details are below. To join in,
contact Toby Lee at toby at yellowtrousers.net or me and I'll pass the info
along. Please forward this to anyone or post it to a list you think might
want to be involved. The editors are particularly looking for people who are
overseas or who will be traveling, but to absolutely anyone who is willing
to take the plunge, your involvement will be deeply appreciated.

Best wishes, Ranbir



eugene presents


a collaborative publication of


³The Colossus of Long Island²

a story by Ranbir Sidhu



Eugene Presents is a unique collaborative publication that connects reader
to text and author through the intimate art of handwriting. Participants are
provided with identical notebooks and copies of the story and are to
hand-copy the story into the notebooks over an extended period of time.
Finished notebooks will be displayed as part of an installation for Eugene
Presents, during Glowlab¹s Open Lab exhibition at Art Interactive in
Cambridge, MA (Oct 14 ­ Dec 11).


Eugene Presents aims to be a chronicle of dispersal, spatial and temporal.
Distances ­ both great and small ­ are to be traveled and mapped out on the
pages of these notebooks: impressed in coffee stains and scribbled phone
numbers, illustrated through sketches and photographs, or inscribed in novel
ways between the lines. We encourage the inclusion of photographs, doodles,
drawings, ticket stubs, stickers ­ even your own writing, music or video
stored on CDs or DVDs. In the end, as with any literary publication, there
will be many copies of the same story, but each copy in a different hand,
and thus many different stories. The finished notebooks, brought together in
one place, will constitute a body of writing that maps some of the varieties
of form that human movement can take‹a chronicle of the infinitely varied
routes walked, run, biked, driven, flown, sailed, and pondered.


Ranbir Sidhu¹s story was selected from a large pool of submissions for the
quality of the writing and for its thematic concerns. Ranbir is a winner of
the Pushcart Prize in fiction and his work has previously appeared in many
journals and anthologies including The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review,
Zyzzyva and Other Voices. In May 2005, he was one of three participants in
NOVEL: a Living Installation, at Flux Factory in Queens, NY
(www.fluxfactory.org/projects/novel.htm).


Eugene Presents is the second installment of Eugene, a series of
publications concerned with questions of media and mediation, the
materiality of print and writing, and the experience of authorship.


To participate: Eugene will mail you a notebook, instructions and a copy of
the story, along with an addressed return envelope. Please send requests or
questions to Toby at  toby at yellowtrousers.net.


For further information, please visit the following websites:

www.glowlab.com        www.artinteractive.org        www.yellowtrousers.net