material reading
in collaboratin with Cecilie Fang Jensen
fot. Cecilie Fang Jensen / ‘CONVOCATION II’, SOCIETY OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH (SAR), SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) for Language-based Artistic Research, ZENTRUM FOKUS FORSCHRUNG, VIENNA, AUSTRIA — 2023
lecture performance and dialogue on language-based artistic research
(on-going and growing)
Material Reading is a lecture performance, creating a space for practicing artistic research and using performance as
a method of doing so within the actions and thoughts manifested. It is a dialogue existing within the borders of sharing
research and sharing to / as research. Among auto-theory, exchanged thoughts and literature, our points of departure
are processes of asemic writing and heat scanning, which open up a conversation about language existing outside of words
in material and sonic transformation. While one person does asemic writing, another person reads parts from the written dialogue.
As in a conversation, the other responds, moving between asemic and spoken responses.
Material Reading researches dialogue by being in dialogue with one another ourselves. A collective correspondence as our approaches
to materiality and iteration of objects enter a dialogue, when to write is to touch and to speak is to iterate. It’s a form of revisited
dialogue, memory of a conversation that becomes something else in the moment of being taken out of its previous familiar environment.
We look upon the materiality of language and how it can manifest itself in other forms than words;
body becomes paper, when to read is to be left with a mark ; a body writes in memory of previous readings,
when other people’s words end up touching one’s own ; text becomes a sound, when the act of writing and speaking is to move.
fot. Cecilie Fang Jensen