Llano Community Bookstore
at CalArts Library + IKO IKO
Two-part temporary bookstore
April 5 — April 20, 2012
Organized by Textfield, Inc.
PART I
CalArts Library: Microfilm Room
24700 McBean Pkwy.
Valencia, CA 91355
Thursday, April 5, 1-6pm
PART II
IKO IKO Space
931 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Friday, April 6 — Friday, April 20, 12-7pm (Closed Mondays)
CalArts graduate students have selected titles from the Textfield Distribution Catalog, to be included in both parts, and will install/ deinstall and work as Shopkeepers during PART I of the temporary bookstore, located in the CalArts Library Microfilm Room. PART II of the temporary bookstore be hosted by IKO IKO in Los Angeles, and includes furniture, used for both parts, designed by WAKA WAKA.
The bookstore is based upon, and takes its name from, Llano Del Rio, which was organized under the Llano Del Rio Company and was a corporate-run socialist Utopian society initiated by Job Harriman, following his narrow defeat in a runoff election for the mayorship of Los Angeles. Harriman believed that the success of socialism depended not only on politics, but also on the realization of socialist principles. Harriman did not attempt to reform all of society, but rather, he believed that by creating a functioning socialist community within the larger society of capitalism, the larger society would gradually convert to socialism.
PUBLISHERS
100% Biz, Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Bücher & Hefte, CCC, Cheap Art America, Ein Magazin über Orte, Fillip, FormContent, Kaleidoscope Press, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunstverein, mediabus, Midway Contemporary Art, Nieves, Occasional Papers, Schnauzer, Slavs and Tatars, The Kingsboro Press