COLLECTIVE READING med Faun Vium
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9.9.24
9.10.24
5pm-7pm
Danseatelier, Blegdamsvej 18A, 2. sal i baggården, 2200 copenhagen N.
19:30 Surbending_Black box
The event is free, but registration is required - book your place here:
The Freezer Door
"When you turn the music off, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness, that means turn the music back on, right? When you still feel the sadness, even with the music, that means there's something wrong with this music."
Over two evenings, performance artist and sculptor Faun Vium invites us to playfully explore reading in new ways. Everyone is welcome. You don't need to have read or researched anything before you come. For this Collective Reading, which Faun has titled Desire Me Again in Your Image, we will be reading The Freezer Door (2020) by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Besides examining the gentrification of Seattle, the texts are homeless in their quest to feel someone/something. Sycamore describes isolation on the dance floor, on the streets, and in the cruising areas of the woods, and with her chaotic texts attempts to depict the hypocrisy of desire and the city's lost queer utopias.
Inspired by the book, visual artist Faun Vium will performatively host the evening with a combination of memoir, essay writing and performance. We will re-enact a dating story between an ice cube and an ice cube tray, sing a community song about loss and maybe talk a little about the eyes on butterfly wings.The Freezer Door is being translated by Luka Holmegaard at OVO Press, and at the event the text will be presented in both English and Danish. However, the event itself will be in Danish.
the artist
Faun Vium (b. 1996) is a trans-feminine performance artist and sculptor.
She often works in hybrid formats such as film and opera, where sculpture, stage design and music work in harmony to articulate and calm her experience of being in both personal and structural crises. Faun Vium (b. 1996) is a trans-feminine performance artist and sculptor.
about the format
Collective Reading is a format, where we read together.
We invite an artist or teacher to open up and play with the way we read: What happens when we read collectively, bodily or guided? Is it possible to find a different way of reading and engaging with texts than we have done before?