2nd May Saturday 4-6pm

Anniken Weber (Norway-UK), Sadegh Aleahmad, (Iran-UK), Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (Thailand-UK) , Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Germany-UK)

Part 1:
The Reading Group, How To Write: Three Artists, Anniken Weber (Norway-UK), Sadegh Aleahmad, (Iran-UK), Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn (Thailand-UK) will examine the idea of reading about writing in a live situation over the time span of the allocated two hours. The artists may not collaborate or interact with each other however they occupy the space as three separate entities. Prior to their appearance in the space, they are not aware of the content or concept of each other’s work. The margins and formats of their ‘reading’ will be set as a time frame agreed on location amongst the three artists. Discussions will be initiated by an unpredictable common denominator.

Sadegh Aleahmad:
This work will investigate how a newspaper selected by the artist on his way to the space on the day of the performance (2 May 2015)  can be read throughout the duration of 15-30 minutes. This intervention is  part of the artist’s current series called ‘Blanck Tapes’.

Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn:
How to read in an epoch of the end of the words and apocalypsync?
Anniken Weber:
Subtextile. Reading the writing now. I will be reading the unknown elements contained within the space, as words appear as non-language. I will use it to write my reading to the viewers and self.

Part 2:
The mentioned artists will issue three un-prescribed reports, open format, functioning as the base for the text of how to read: ‘writing about reading’ transcribed by artist, Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Germany – UK).

The objective is to examine multiple, simultaneous states of mind brought into notional thinking processes (projected, imagined, read) on the account of the live action of the reading group. The writer is the reader of ‘writing’, the reader of images and documentation, the reader of states of mind. The writer is translator.

Positions are altered, ‘slipping’ into a ‘Doppelbesetzung’*. The writer examines the irrelevance of narrative. The acknowledgment of emotional states during the action of writing and reading cannot be ignored. The operation and the making of text is reclusive and solitary. When momentary reading and reflection of writing happens, it is undisclosed.

The writing of the writer’s text is disposed for ‘publication’.
The speculation of interchanging positions between the artist, the author, the performer, the publisher, the curator expand to non-transparent and non-sensical relations. The writer and performer has to negotiate with signs of a paradoxical ‘Triple-agent’ by modeling a de-coding system.

The performance of writing about the reading is not-public (a Five Year’s Concept and Term) and the moment of active writing addresses an undiscerning audience. A secret portrayal imbedded in a process with a regard to become public.

* German, multiple deployment of roles diluted in one moment

Contact: Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith
contact@werftraum.org