Threads of Investigation: Reading Group

How can we crack open the idea of a ‘reading group’?  Shake it loose from some of its more familiar trappings, making it ‘fragile’.

Through thinking  about the upcoming Noise & Capitalism book reading I thought it would be interesting to experiment with combining more performative methods into the investigation by recording-documenting (with dictaphones, mobile phones, cameras or objects etc) our responses to the texts we will be reading. This opens up the interpretation of the text as it will not just be limited to polite verbal communication:

How do you record the sound of your indifference to the text? 

How would you represent your procrastination - wash the pots? 

Can you represent the space/time that may influence your reading?

We could then choose documents at random, listen/watch them and use this to guide the discussion, creating a montage of our thoughts, ponderings screams and screeds.

Moleskins optional.

To be read with a friend

Hello, I’d / we’d like to propose a collaborative reading session to sound out some written ideas written, edited, recontexualized and bootlegged in’r suggested book and others to take place on SUNDAY at 3.00pm at 61 WestPrincesStreet an excerpt of the suggestedthe suggested book is called Fortheblindman inthedarkroom lookingfortheblackcat thatisn’tthere, composed we think, by Will Holder , and/or Mr. Huberman and/or the clandestine terrorist group Dexter Sinister. Originally maybe a children’s book it’s got loads of pictures to read, express, describe, sharereading out aloud circular moving-ly you are so invited. Delivering and listening in turn,webcam – headcam potentially provided yeah.

…Fifty years before conceptualism, Duchamp disrupted the territory of art at its core, by asking,

can one make a work of art is not of ‘Art’?

?Can there be an art that isn’t?

?How can one invent an entirely other way of thinking and knowing?

?Can one imagine a new epistemological map, equipped with an additional dimension that reaches outside and beyond the familiar north/south poles of

knowing
-and-
not-knowing

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