Slow Reading Club
Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen in 2016. The group deals in constructed situations for collective reading. The club looks at, probes, and interrupts ‘readership’ as a way to stimulate the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader.
For their invitation to V.esch, Fritz and Andersen propose a late-night collective reading session, soaked in poetry, yellow light and intoxicants, accompanied by a new reader of bootlegged texts. If reading is an action that is ‘performed’, might it also be choreographed? And might such choreographies provide an escape from dominant patterns of reading-as-communication?
Co-curated by Jennifer Gelardo
premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2017 in Brussels. Since then, they have presented work in contexts including MAK Schindler House (Los Angeles), WIELS (Brussels), Bergen Kunsthal, Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), Rozenstraat (Amsterdam), Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Centres Georges Pompidou (Paris), Dortmunder Kunstverein and Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe) a. o. They are currently writing a still-in-progress pulp road novel set on the highways of North America.
Credits
Concept Henry Andersen, Bryana Fritz – A cooperation by Tanzquartier Wien and V.esch.
In English
Visitor note: The audience is free to come and go throughout. This performance involves the use of a stroboscope.