Collective Reading Program by Slow Reading Club. Organized in collaboration with Vleeshal

Slow Reading Club

Bryanna Fritz, Henry Andersen

ROZENSTRAAT hosts Vleeshal for a collective reading program by artist duo Slow Reading Club.

Slow Reading Club is a joint project of choreographer Bryana Fritz and artist Henry Andersen. Together they produce performative reading sessions in which visitors read together from a booklet of texts. Throughout the session, the process of reading is continually rerouted via specific protocols, creating an instability between the reader, reading, and text. This emphasizes the mechanics of how ‘meaning’ is made and unmade within a (collective) body of readers.

The texts used for this session explore the relationship between ‘the host’ and ‘the parasite’ for which they will use literary sources such as The Parasite by Michele Serre and Word Rain by Madeline Gins. By engaging with various figures, participants explore themes of hospitality, generosity and exhaustion through the texts; for whom is the institution a host and for whom a parasite?

Would you like to participate in the reading session? Then reserve a spot by emailing office@vleeshal.nl.

This collective reading program is the 5th edition of ‘Oemoemenoe’, part of the Local Nomadic Program of Vleeshal, and is curated by Adriënne van der Werf.