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As part of the project Disclosures, Gasworks is launching its new Reading Area. Disclosures started as a two-day seminar, residencies and commissions in March 2008, and continues with various events and projects.

The Reading Area is composed of the Disclosures Library, Pipeline and selected publications reflecting upon Gasworks’ past, current and future programmes of activities. All are available for browsing during gallery opening hours.

The Disclosures Library originated as a research archive informing the seminar and was shared onsite in reading and screening spaces during April-May 2008. It has constantly expanded since its inception and has now been relocated to the lobby area as a permanent resource. The library gives visitors access to printed, film and audio material themed around issues of openness and connecting fields encompassing critical media and visual art practice, social history studies and urban sociology.

The catalogue can be viewed online, with many texts available as links. Content is added on a regular basis, and is organised according to four different but overlapping categories:

FROM THE GROUND UP
The lived, embodied and situated realities of networked information culture, resistance to globalisation, activism in the network era, relations between land and information enclosure.

THE POLITICS OF INFORMATION AND ITS FORMS
The politics of organising forms of information and its cultural corollaries; corporate ownership, file sharing, intellectual property; enclosure of information; regulatory, political, corporate, governmental instrumentalisation and control of information.

NEW AND NON AUTHORSHIP
The diffused author, platforms for collaboration in networked media.

ART, NEW MEDIA AND THEIR INSTITUTIONS
Cultural institutions’ responses/co-optation; transfer of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) into cultural operation; labour conditions and art world precarity.

The Disclosures Library is edited by Anna Colin (Exhibitions Curator) and Mia Jankowicz (formerly Residencies Curator at Gasworks) and is coordinated by Christine Takengny (Curatorial Assistant). More texts relating to projects beyond Disclosures at Gasworks are also available through Pipeline.

Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH
UK

T:+44 (0)20 7587 5202
F:+44 (0)20 7582 0159
info@gasworks.org.uk
www.gasworks.org.uk

Tube: Vauxhall/Oval
Bus: 2, 36, 88, 133, 185, 436

Admission is free

Gasworks’ ground floor has full wheelchair access