Book Launch | Hotel Theory Reader
Edited by Sohrab Mohebbi in collaboration with Ruth Estévez and co-published by Fillip and REDCAT.
READ Books in the Charles H. Scott Gallery
Fillip, REDCAT, and READ Books are pleased to announce a launch event for Hotel Theory Reader, the fourth title in Fillip’s ongoing Folio Series presenting writing by critics, artists, and curators that engages specific and recurring questions on international contemporary art. On February 23, join editor Sohrab Mohebbi at READ Books for a launch and reading together with curator Jesse McKee.
Hotel Theory Reader explores the possibilities of theory as an art form, bringing together ideas initially explored in an exhibition organized in 2015 at REDCAT | CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts. The book assembles a collection of texts by David Antin, Art & Language, Ruth Estévez, Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Chris Kraus, Snejanka Mihaylova, Sohrab Mohebbi, Cally Spooner, V-Girls, Danna Vajda, and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Edited by Sohrab Mohebbi in collaboration with Ruth Estévez, Hotel Theory Reader is co-published by Fillip and REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater), Los Angeles.
Sohrab Mohebbi is in Vancouver as part of the Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures visitors program, co-organized and presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr University and 221A, with the support of the Province of British Columbia’s Creative Economy Strategy which encourages organizations to host international guests to broaden the global visibility of Vancouver artists.
Everyone welcome.