The AWAKE Reading Room is an evolving library of books, zines and photography-related materials that responds to issues of liberty, resistance and social protest.
Reading Room Tour
- PGH Photo Fair, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (29-30 April 2017)
- Magnum Foundation, New York City (17 June 2017)
- Image Text Ithaca Symposium, Ithaca, NY (June 30-July 1, 2017)
- Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston (4-5 December 2017)
About 10×10 AWAKE
Presented as either objects of protest in themselves or documents of protest by others, the printed materials that form the ongoing 10×10 AWAKE Reading Room have been collected through a global open-call to artists and photographers. A selection of these submitted materials – in tandem with historical protest and resistance photobooks on loan from sponsoring institutions – are presented in this new AWAKE Reading Room.
The books, zines and ephemera have been grouped into loose themes. No specific political or social agenda is endorsed by 10×10 Photobooks in the formation of this library. The sole purpose of this Reading Room is to explore the role of the arts and the artist during a period of significant political and social change.
The first AWAKE Reading Room was exhibited at the PGH Photo Fair at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (29-30 April 2017), followed by a reading room, book and zine bazaar at the Magnum Foundation (17 June 2017), and reading rooms at Image Text Ithaca and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The books in the 10×10 AWAKE Reading Room have been donated to the Brooklyn Museum Libraries in New York.
