Reading group #3 – Melted for Love
Over three consecutive Thursday evenings, we gather at ROZENSTRAAT for a reading group in dialogue with the exhibition Melted for Love, as part of the Sonic Acts Biennial.
The series brings together a selection of poems, fiction and theory by authors whose work resonates with the themes and perspectives presented in the exhibition. The texts explore ancestral knowledge, dreams, justice, mourning, and ecofeminist thought, drawing on absurdity and ritual to unsettle the ordinary. To kiss the ground, to murmur, to remember, to chant.
The literary material unfolds in close relation to the works presented in the exhibition by Eglé Budvytyté, Eliana Otta, Nikolay Karabinovych, Kivu Ruhorahoza and Christian Nyampeta, tracing threads between landscape and body, movement and memory, grief and breath. Across the gatherings, we carry the questions proposed by the artists and authors into a shared space of listening, conversation and reflection. Dreaming is a way of knowing, of staying, of repairing. Naming petals at night, with our backs to the moon.
No prior experience is required to join the reading group. Participants may read the full texts or selected fragments and are welcome to attend one or multiple gatherings. Each session takes place in English and lasts approximately two hours. Materials for each session will be sent one week in advance.
The reading group is guided by Jimena Casas.
Writings by Kim Hyesoon, Julio Cortázar, Ellen Lima Wassu, Brandon LaBelle, Ailton Krenak, Çağlar Köseoğlu and Maricela Guerrero, alongside other resonant references.
To register please send an email to info@rozenstraat.com
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Day 1: Thursday 5th of March
- Phantom Pain Wings and Autobiography of Death – Kim Hyesoon
- “Instructions on How To Cry” / Cronopios and Famas – Julio Cortazar
- “Cry, Scream, Shout, Sing” / Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary – Brandon LaBelle
Day 2: Thursday 12th of March
- Xul Solar Tarot
interpretive reading through the text of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne
Costa: The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards
- New Ancient Words – Ellen Lima Wassu
- “Our Love is Terroristic’’ – Çağlar Köseoğlu
Day 3: Thursday 19th of March
- Ideas To Postpone the End of the World – Ailton Krenak
- The Dream of Every Cell – Maricela Guerrero