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’s starting point five books by Marcel Broodthaers, which the artist conceived as autonomous artworks, and aims to explore the book as a living entity. The titles consist of: Pense-Bête (1963-1964), Un coup de dés jamais n´abolira le hazard (1969), MTL (1970-1972), Un voyage on mer du nord (1973) and L’Angelus de Daumier (1975). Each of these touch on aspects of books, such as how they relate to other art forms (sculpture, poetry, exhibitions, film, painting) or the production processes involved in making them (technical, material, institutional, negotiation with others).
2:00 p.m. Introduction to the project by its initiators: art critic Miren Jaio (Bulegoa z/b) and book designer Filiep Tacq
2:15 p.m. A talk on Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) by art historian Edgaras Gerasimovičius
2:40 p.m. Filliep Tacq discusses the books of Marcel Broodthaers
3:40 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Reading group session hosted by Filiep Tacq, moderated by Miren Jaio
The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) is the largest venue for contemporary art in the Baltic States. The CAC is a non-collection based institution committed to developing a broad range of international and Lithuanian exhibition projects as well as presenting a wide range of public programmes including lectures, seminars, performances, film and video screenings, and live new music events
http://www.cac.lt/en/other/general/15/7919
The project The Book to Come is developed as part of Corpus, network for performance practice. Corpus is Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), Playground (STUK Kunstencentrum & M-Museum, Leuven), and Tate Modern (London): www.corpus-network.org.
Corpus is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
