BAR sí

BAR sí was a participatory installation curated by Eva Parra at Printed Matter / St Marks located within Swiss Institute, New York in September, 2024.
 

In BAR sí, artist Rujuta Rao invited the audience to experience a menu of artworks across a bar counter. The menu featured alcoholic beverages, an edible pairing, artworks, artist books, and printed matter created during her 2024 residency at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. BAR sí was a celebration reflecting on Printed Matter / St Marks as it concluded, after 6 years of operation in the East Village.

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Works on the menu included Rao’s newly launched book On Solitary Viewership, publications made alongside learning about the Goan distilled beverage cashew feni, a wearable book titled Mother, and Wave, a book of printed words infused in a jar of alcohol, among others.

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The accompanying essay titled Barring Tenderness was contributed by Laurel V. McLaughlin.