Ania Bas, new walking reading group developed out of the Intercouse project

We're really pleased to announce that artist Ania Bas, who was one of the commissioned artists for the Intercourse project, has developed the work she did with us into a new Walking Reading group, which will take place in May 2013 in London. Please see details below and go to Ania's personal blog if you'd like to sign up.

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The Walking Reading Group on Participation will be walking the streets of South and North London. The group is facilitated by Simone Mair and Ania Bas.

The group is a spring version of The Reading Group on Participation that was commissioned by Elbow Room and hosted by g39 in Cardiff.

 

We will be walking on:

Tue 21st May and Wed 22nd May (6:00 - 9:00 pm on both days)

meeting point:  Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH

 

and

 

Tue 28th May  and Wed 29th May (6:00 - 9:00 pm on both days)

meeting point: The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

Please e-mail me if you want to join as spaces are limited.

The group offers a chance to discuss the issues surrounding participation, engagement, collaboration, and social practice through a dynamic walking reading group. For each session some texts will be set in advance and will form the backbone of the exchange. We will depart from a venue and walk for up to an hour, swapping conversations and partners several times. A part from the discussed texts and personal experiences, art projects related to the area will form our dialogues. 

 

The selection of texts and the applied dynamic methodology is an attempt to view beyond the binary logic of Socially Engaged Art practices, which often oppose participation to exclusion, nature to culture, thus subject to object.