'Oemoemenoe' #5: Slow Reading Club
Bryana Fritz, Henry Andersen
Text, Reading
12 October 2024
6 – 8:30 pm
ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose (Map)
Curator: Adriënne van der Werf
For the fifth edition of Oemoemenoe, Vleeshal invited the artist duo Slow Reading Club, for a collective reading program in Amsterdam. Slow Reading Club is a joint project of choreographer Bryana Fritz and artist Henry Andersen. Together they produce performative reading sessions in which visitors read together from a booklet of texts. Throughout the session, the process of reading is continually rerouted via specific protocols, creating an instability between the reader, reading, and text. This emphasizes the mechanics of how ‘meaning’ is made and unmade within a (collective) body of readers.
The program was a collaboration with ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose in Amsterdam. The texts used for this session explored the relationship between ‘the host’ and ‘the parasite’ for which they used literary sources such as The Parasite by Michel Serre and Word Rain by Madeline Gins. By engaging with various figures, participants explored themes of hospitality, generosity and exhaustion through the texts; for whom is the institution a host and for whom a parasite?
On October 12, ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose hosted Slow Reading Club in collaboration with Vleeshal. The reading session took place from 8 to 10:30pm at Rozenstraat 59 in Amsterdam.
Series
Oemoemenoe started in 2023 as part of the Local Nomadic Program. For Oemoemenoe, contemporary artists are invited to develop a project in collaboration with local associations and businesses in Zeeland - sports clubs, swimming pools, hotels, and restaurants. We bring visitors into contact with contemporary art in various special places in Zeeland and invite artists who give us possible directions on which way to go. They question, each in their own way, the accepted norm through their artistic practice.
This project is made possible by the Mondiaan Fund.
