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As well as staging irregular exhibitions of its collection, The Serving Library also operates as a satellite seminar room, conducting tailored classes for university-level art, design and writing students.
Our ongoing programs invoke particularly artistic points of view on a broad spectrum of subjects — the humanities, including art, design, writing, philosophy, and literature; as well as more literary renditions of mathematical and scientific ideas — according with the most recent and upcoming issues. Semester-long themes have included Time, Typography, Psychedelia, Numbers, Color, and Perspective, among others. Typically, a selection of bulletins are assigned for reading and class discussion, with selections from the backdrop of artifacts on the walls often entering into play as unusually telling and instructive counterpoints to the written materials.
As liberal education suffers the effects of relentless corporatization and sterilization, The Serving Library offers a space for teaching in which the environment itself is conducive to thinking and doing. Such programs are arranged according to each visiting group’s specific interests and logistical considerations, from intensive week-long or multi-week courses and workshops for groups traveling from outside Liverpool, to single, day-long seminar meetings for groups who can more easily access The Serving Library from within the UK, to persistent, periodic attendance for local university groups.
Inquiries and proposals for future collaborations are most welcome. To discuss possibilities, contact stuart@servinglibrary.org
Our current and recent institutional collaborations:
Liverpool John Moores University
University of Liverpool
University of Leeds
Royal College of Art, London
St. Martins School of Art, London
Raumlaborberlin, Dusseldorf
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
The University of Reading, UK
Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
Dusseldorf Art Academy
University of Art and Design, Geneva
The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
For a much longer account of our pedagogical ideas and ideals, see here.
and buy our print edition by Sanya Kantarovsky here.