Workshops, Exhibition, Screening, Talks & Performances | READING READING ROOM: Dealing with Illegibility
Workshops, exhibition, screening, talks & performances with contributions by Barbara Bausch, Ulrike Draesner, Robin Coenen & Danielle Rosales, Angélica Freitas, Elias Kreuzmair, Anouk Luhn, Karolin Meunier, Kinga Tóth, Nhã Thuyên and more.
Reading as a practice is both mundane and mysterious: We commonly understand it as a mental technique that involves the visual recognition of written signs, the actualisation of the sound image of words and the comprehension of their meaning. But at the same time, reading produces something that cannot be derived from what is read alone, operating along the lines of a black box: We can only ever grasp it 'in flagrante'. In response to this difficulty, READING READING ROOM brings together scholars and artists to explore and discuss the precarious practice of reading by reflecting on its absolute limit: the illegible. Paying special attention to the question of what happens when what we perceive as successful reading is blocked, the event highlights reading not only as a functional act of decoding information, but also as an aesthetic, sensual, affective, experimental and political practice in its own right.
Programme
Workshops (registration required; please find the registration details via the links below)
10:00 | Performance Workshop with Kinga Tóth: How to Sing a Picture? (max. 8 participants)
14:00 | Workshop with Robin Coenen & Danielle Rosales (visual intelligence): Mapping Textual Spaces: Visual Strategies to Approach the Unreadable (max. 14 participants)
Exhibition (no registration required)
17:30–22:00
Angélica Freitas: Illegible Writings. Invitation to Deal with the Illegible – images and audio installation visual intelligence and others: Mapping Textual Spaces – visual iterations
Evening Programme (no registration required)
18:00 | Barbara Bausch: Dealing with Illegibility – welcome and introduction
18:15 | Ulrike Draesner & Elias Kreuzmair: Zum Erkenntnisversprechen des Unlesbaren. Gespräch mit Jeannie Moser
19:00 | Nhã Thuyên: âm u əm˧˧ u˧˧. A Moving Poem of the Vietnamese Alphabet – screening
19:30 | Break
20:00 | Karolin Meunier: Reading a Code – performance followed by a conversation with Anouk Luhn
20:45 | Kinga Tóth: How to Sing a Picture – performance
The event will see the launch of con·stel·la·tions 03: Illegibilities Reflecting Reading.
Further Information
For further information, please contact Barbara Bausch, b.bausch@fu-berlin.de.
The event will be held in English and German (Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch und Deutsch statt).