Reader
Performance and publication
2023

Reader is a performance exploring the body of a reader as a site of conflicting desires and drifting attention, where multiple texts converge, and notions of individual selfhood dissolve. Collaboratively conceived and enacted by members of ‘Non Productive Readers’ – a reading group initiated by Bryony Dawson in 2022 – this performance draws from texts discussed last winter at a.p. in Berlin.

With text fragments from Tiqqun, Lisa Robertson, Julien Bismuth, David Antin, and Tan Lin, and punctuated by a Donna Summer synth, Reader unfolds as a stream of borrowed, remixed and disembodied language, tracing questions of authorship and agency, submission and pleasure, plagiarism, boredom and ambient literature.

Performance hosted by Viscose Journal during their Between Bridges residency in Berlin, 15th November 2023.
Performers: Bryony Dawson, Giulia Ottavia Frattini, Mathilde Heuliez, Jonathan Lubasch, George Macbeth, Kristina Stallvik.

Performance documentation by Asia Skupinska

Publication printed in an edition of 30 with risograph single ink, in collaboration with Cover Crop (Kristina Stallvik)