Slow Reading Club is a semi-fictional reading group initiated by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen. They deal in constructed situations for collective reading to probe the ways in which “meaning” passes between bodies in the act of reading. SRC seeks to occupy and eroticise this space of transmission between text and reader, reader and reader, text and text. They want to dwell in the unstable space of reading itself, to intensify what Spivak calls “the possible menace of a space outside of language” that is opened up in reading and in love.
During the Slow Reading Club, thematic coordination with the exhibitions creates a collective physical reading experience: Using various instructions, the audience reads together through a selection of found texts from prose, poetry and theory. The aim is not so much to decipher them or to understand them fundamentally, but rather to create a pretext for working together with texts: skin over sentence structure and meat against meat.
The May event of On Collective Reading///A one day workshop with Emma Wolf-Haugh
Thursday, 7th April, 15:00-18:00
Location: Project Space FL 101, Sandberg Instituut, Overschiestraat 188
The event is open to all
CALL FOR CO-READERS
Thursday, 7th April, 15:00-18:00
Location: Project Space FL 101, Sandberg Instituut, Overschiestraat 188
The event is open to all
To participate please email seanoriordan6@gmail.com
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Slow Reading Club is a semi-fictonal reading group initiated by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen. SRC looks at, probes, and interrupts ‘readership’ as a way to stimulate the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader. SRC does not aim at deconstruction or even comprehension of the texts in hands, but at the production of a kind of excess: to temporarily suspend criticality for intimacy and to negotiate agencies with the text
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On Collective Reading is a research initiative looking at reading groups as spaces to collectively understand but also modify the world around us. We want to practice performative and theatrical reading techniques and invite „co-readers“ to participate in workshops that aim to explore the format of reading groups through collective reading, performance, and DIY publishing. SRC is the first event of this series.
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Quicksand is a series of workshops and lectures hosted by students of the design department. With ‘critical design practice’ being either too self-centred to influence or too peripheral to care, Quicksand explores possible strategies for politicality within art & design.
