Productions, The Book to Come
A space of seventy-two years separates Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard and Broodthaers’ Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1897 to 1969, respectively). Broodthaers, a writer, “abandoned” writing to work as an artist on a book by another writer, Mallarmé, who…(Read More)
Productions, The Book to Come
With this session, I propose a reading of Her Majesty Sylvia M., a book made using random phrases from wall panels at the National Gallery in London and illustrated with versions of drawings by Sylvia Plath. Our reference here will be “The White Room” from Marcel Broodthaers’ L’Angelus de Daumier. The book title plays…(Read More)
Productions, The Book to Come
I remember when I was a child and would choose books for their formats rather than their content, but how to judge a book by its cover, if the cover is still to come? Coinciding with the Summer Solstice events, I am proposing the session “Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out…(Read More)
Productions, The Book to Come
Shipwreck on the Basque coast (c. 1890.Bermeo Municipal Archive). This session of The Book to Come is a journey down the ría, the Bilbao estuary, on the Euskal Herria. Departure and return: 21:00 – 23:00 Departs from: Agrupación de Boteros de Portugalete Plaza del Solar s/n 48920 – Portugalete To take…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
Using Marcel Broodthaers’ book Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1969) as her starting point, Amaia Urra presents a singular reading of texts and interviews with the Belgian artist. Words follow one another as in a throw of the dice, forming new combinations and calling up hidden presences in language. “Bla…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolirá le hazard was published posthumously in 1914 by Gallimard. It was read out, interpreted and rewritten by Marcel Broodthaers in 1969, and is being used as a departure point for a dance by Israél Galván, flamenco bailaor. This session, “Una…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
This session will consider possible relationships between film, books and text. It will be vertebrated around Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolirá le hazard, which we will take to be foundational in the contemporary idea of space, and which was transformed by Marcel Broodthaers into a “specific object…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
“The Book to Come.” Session ten, proposed by Bulegoa z/b: a group that reads is a group that studies
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To look at a book slowly and carefully turns the object to be read into an object of study, and those who look into a study group. It was a year ago that The Book to Come reading group began our meetings. During the time we have been together, we’ve been reading and carefully…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
Today, Friday 6 May 2016, I’ve been living in Brussels for just over three years. It’s hard for me to wander round the city without Broodthaers being present. What links me to him is pure idolatry; the past naturally superimposes itself on the present. I recognise him in objects, places and attitudes. The…(Read More)