Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey

I initially described this as “a short [!] reader concerned with art/design education” that I compiled for the Academic Project Office (APO), a lively but short-lived initiative set up at Parsons The New School in New York by Tim Marshall and Lisa Grocott around the mid-2000s. It was published as a pamphlet to be read by the school’s entire Liberal Arts faculty, with the aim of provoking a school-wide discussion.

At some point along the way, I decided it ought to become the first of three documents, whose individual titles would join up into one long composite—an idea stolen from B.S. Johnson. At this point I had no idea what that sentence might be, so I left the first part open-ended enough to allow further clauses to be clipped on later, which turned out to be (Only an Attitude of Orientation) and From the Toolbox of a Serving Library.

Lead image: Diagrammed sentence made with Frances Stark, 2006.

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