Reading groups in CAC Vilnius, The Book to Come
The work of Marcel Broodthaers can be regarded as one of the first cases of post-medium practice, and Un Voyage en Mer du Nord (1973-74) in its genetic redundancy, as one clear example of a work that insists on the fundamental instability and indefiniteness of media. Indeed, it demonstrates that the space between…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
In a Reading group Slavs and Tatars will be discussing Norman Brown’s book Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis (1991). “Brown’s book is one we return to repeatedly (we first came upon him in our research for Not Moscow Not Mecca), a rare example of seamlessly mixing the affective and the analytical. Namely, we’d…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
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 looking at five books by Marcel Broodthaers which were chosen by Filiep Tacq. We invited different people to help us by directing each session: Mónica Carballas…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
This text is the beat that drives the game to the hunter. In a strained balance, of positive and of negative, on this (as yet) black square, on this (as yet) white page, the possible unravellings of stories, of memories will take place. The reader will be invited to read on a warning written for…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
Certain things seem to have been done with such clarity when looked back on many years later. Some people say: Marcel Broodthaers used to be a poet, then he became an artist and then even a film maker. Some say Rimbaud used to be a super young lyrical genius until he grew tired of it…(Read More)
Reading groups in CAC Vilnius, The Book to Come
Session one, “The Book to Come” Reading Group at CAC Vilnius Reading Room, proposed by Filiep Tacq
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The Book to Come at CAC Reading Room will consist of public talks, events and screenings accompanied by a reading group spanning November 2015 – April 2016. The project has been developed by Bulegoa z/b in collaboration with book designer Filiep Tacq and is co-hosted by CAC Vilnius Reading Room. It takes as it…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
Almost everything I want to say and encourage the members of this seminar/workshop to think about in this session of The Book to Come relates to poet Marcel Broodthaers’ decision to turn the book into art material and a space for thinking about poetry and art. If Pense-Bête continues to resonate with…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
Session four, “The Book to Come” Reading Group: “La jalousie”, proposed by Isidoro Valcárcel Medina
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“IN 1957, ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET PUBLISHED ‘LA JALOUSIE’ IN 1972 VALCÁRCEL MEDINA CARRIED IT OVER INTO A FILM THIS IS THE FILM POSTER” The film poster for the Isidoro Valcárcel Medina’s one and only film is explicit and literal: La Celosía is not a filmed adaptation of Robbe-Grillet’s book…(Read More)
Reading sessions, The Book to Come
Discoteca Flaming Star have been making banners since the year 2001. These are large textile works inscribed with broken, open emblems. The banner texts grow out of a perpetual dialogue with living and deceased artists and extend their fabric through spaces which they interrupt and soften at the same time. In Session 3 of The…(Read More)