THE SERVING LIBRARY ANNUAL 2020/21

1. There is a biographical reason for this. The objects in this collection have been assembled over almost two decades as part of the making of Dot Dot Dot, then Bulletins of The Serving Library, then The Serving Library Annual. The editorial group has fluctuated over the years. Stuart Bailey and Peter Bil’ak were Dot Dot Dot’s main editors from 2000 until 2006 — which is around the time that this collection was first conceived and installed (about 15 items in Tallinn, Estonia). David Reinfurt then replaced Peter as co-editor until the final, 20th issue in 2010. Stuart, David and Angie Keefer founded Bulletins of The Serving Library in a similar but expanded vein, and witha digital bias. Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey came on board in 2016, just prior to the journal’s deceleration into The Serving Library Annual. Angie left in 2017, and I joined a year later. As the most recent addition, I have thus been called upon to write about something that I am both part of and that predates me, a tree I prune regularly without ever having seen its trunk.

2. This, of course, doesn’t mean it is exempt from them. Informed and guided by the discourse around Western modernism, this collection — and to a large extent this publication — is a mirror of its own flaws and blind spots, and over the years it has displayed them in egregious ways, its platform reflecting to a disturbing extent the preponderance of cishet able white males in the European, colonial modernist canon.

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EDITORS
Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey Vincenzo Latronico David Reinfurt

THANKS
Timon Blad Bieke Criel Bert De Backer Arnaut De Cleene Michiel De Cleene Lore Donckers Tom Godfrey Olivier Goethals Valentijn Goethals Marjo Karttunen Kettle’s Yard, University Joasic Krysa Linder Tomas Lootens Reece Straw Johanna Vokkari
In partnership with 019, Ghent LLS Paleis, Antwerp Ravisius Textor, Nevers. With the support of Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Helsinki Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki.

Special thanks to all writers, artists and other contributors whose work is quoted or picture in this issue.

DISPERSION
Designed by Hyesu Son, at Isdat, Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse, site Daurade, June 2022
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PHOTO CREDITS All photographs by Reece Straw apart from the front cover and #95 by Michiel de Cleene.