X-TRA : Contemporary Art Quarterly : The Project X Writer’s Desk at Outpost@Armory in Pasadena, California.

Deadline is August 15, 2014

Project X Foundation and Armory Center for the Arts announce a call for proposals for a writer-in-residence at the Project X Desk at Outpost@Armory in the PAA Gallery at Armory in Pasadena.

The Desk offers a quiet nook for writing and thinking. The purpose of the residency is to offer LA-based and visiting writers a dedicated working space for a particular project or avenue of research, and to provide a forum for sharing that work with the public.

Details and Application Guidelines>

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X-TRA and Project X present a Summer Launch event for X-TRA Volume 16, Number 4

The Expansion of the Instant

Hosted by Archive Books, Berlin, Germany

Saturday August 23, 2014 | 7 – 9:30 PM

A discussion about photography, anxiety, and infinity with Kim Schoen, Michaela Wünsch, and Patricia Reed with screening of Stanya Kahn’s It’s Cool I’m Good.

Pick up the summer issue of X-TRA and Cadavere Quotidiano at the event.

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Sneak Preview of the Fall X-TRA

In the issue:

X-TRA Fall 2014, Volume 17, number 1

Julia McCornack and Connie Butler | From Painting to Therapeutic Practice: Conversation about Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988

Melissa Ragain | Review: Trent Harris

Jan Tumlir | Review: Miles Coolidge

Vanessa Place| Review: Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe

Stanya Kahn | Artists’ Project: Ciphers for Ciphers

Leslie Dick | On Repetition: Nobody Passes

Constance Mallison | Review: Fran Siegel

Gladys-Katherina Hernando | Review: John Knight

Subscribe now and get the lovely full-color journal in your mailbox next month.

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