Dot Dot Dot 16

By Stuart Bailey Dot Dot Dot is a bi-annual independent art and design publication that began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content gradually widened to cover art, music, language, politics, film, and literature.  This issue was conceived parallel to—and issued from under the wing of—the 2008-2009 project "True Mirror," Dexter Sinister's response to an invitation to participate in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Dexter Sinister, the collaborative publishing and design project of Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt, acted as a shadow press office, publishing alternate press releases during the first three weeks of the show, ultimately producing a live performance ("a documents opera".)  Issue 16 was produced between March 4 and March 23, 2008, during Dexter Sinister's three-week residence in a hidden room accessed by a secret button in the wooden-paneled Commander’s Room in a corner of the old Armory Building, some ten blocks south of the former Whitney Museum in uptown New York.