Hotel Theory Reader explores the possibilities of theory as an art form, bringing together ideas initially explored in an exhibition organized in 2015 at REDCAT | CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts. This publication takes its title from Wayne Koestenbaum’s 2007 book Hotel Theory (a philosophic enquiry into the hotel state of being).

Hotel Theory is not a theory of hotels, but a hotel named Theory, ie, a place where certainty falls apart, or where stupor gets an airing.
–Wayne Koestenbaum

Contains texts by David Antin, Art & Language, Ruth Estévez, Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Chris Kraus, Snejanka Mihaylova, Sohrab Mohebbi, Cally Spooner, V-Girls, Danna Vajda, and Tirdad Zolghadr. Co-published by Fillip and REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater), Los Angeles.