AWARE and Union Quoi? International·e, an artist collective associated with the documentation center at Villa Vassilieff, are pleased to invite you to four original reading workshops during the 2023-2024 academic year. We’d like to revisit the writings of the authors we love in a different way, weaving them together before their memory is lost. The mesh of interlacing threads would be ways of circulating their words and thoughts beyond the margins that frame the fabric of their language; of disseminating them through our pores, of decentering their point of gravity, beyond the warp and weft of their impression.
By asking ourselves how we understand our presence, here and now, and how, over time, we navigate the texts of these authors, what memory we forge of them, beginning to trace other constellations and to see the words drawn by our sensibility to the trembling pages we hold. The uncertainty of the future towards which we are moving drives us to reinvention: as inheritors of books, how do we read? How are we sensitive to the words left by our elders? To their thoughts? How can we move forward with them? How can we feel differently? How do we write? How do we “understand together”?
February 14, 2024 – When books turn to dust, what will be the center of your love? (based on texts by Qiu Miaojin & other authors), conceived and led by Yeongseo Jee
More information can be found here.