SINISTER TO ESTABLISH “FIRST/LAST” NEWSPAPER AT PORT AUTHORITY 1 NOVEMBER 2009 — Recently described as “wheat paste,” DEXTER SINISTER are set to produce a newspaper twice a week for three weeks this fall under the umbrella of PERFORMA 09, New York’s well-regarded bi-annual festival of performance art. To- gether with a hastily assembled staff of in- ternational writers and photographers, the Lower East Side “pamphleteers” will occupy a disused, street-level space in New York’s Port Authority bus terminal on the corner of 8th Avenue and 41st Street, directly op- posite the new New York Times building. According to sources close to Sinister, The First/Last Newspaper (TF/LN) will be “as much about the current state of news me- dia as anything else.” They will host a pub- lic opening of the workspace on TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2009 from 6pm onwards and screen Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu, the 1980 doc- umentary conceived by Times Linotype op- erator Carl Schlesinger. Schlesinger will offer a small introduction to the film that evening. TF/LN will then appear twice a week for the following three weeks, to be distributed in “various formats” yet to be announced. Like- wise, further events open to the public will be arranged during their three-week operation. In Sinister’s own characteristically melodra- matic words: “You don’t want to start quan- tifying things or you’re dead.”

Still from Farewell, etaoin shrdlu, a 1980 film chronicling the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times.

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