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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/44719| Title: | A Table | Contributors/Performers: | PEETERS, Jeroen | Issue Date: | 2024 | Abstract: | ‘Reader, I invite you to do the reading of the writing of my reading of what I am writing,’ writes the French poet Francis Ponge in La table (1967-73), the last of his notebook works, devoted to the table that is his immediate work environment. In this performance reading, Jeroen Peeters takes up the invitation to do the reading of this notebook and the tables it evokes. Seated at a wooden table, Peeters activates the book of Ponge by way of reading, gestures as well as visual and textual annotations that are projected live. | Keywords: | Readership;book activation | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/44719 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://cas-co.be/activiteiten/back-to-back-perspectives-on-artists-writing-and-publishing | Discipline: | multidisciplinair | Research Context: | This performance reading was first presented in the framework of 'Back-to-back: perspectives on artists' writing and publishing', curated by Alicja Melzacka at Cas-co in Leuven, 27-28 April 2024. Participating guests: Henry Andersen, Clara Amaral, Francesca Hawker, Will Holder, Martha Jager, Jeroen Peeters, Isabelle Sully, Reinier Vrancken. They're all engaged in experimental artistic publishing practices and explored the relationship between text and body. Publishing and bookbinding terminology abounds in bodily metaphors and vocabulary borrowed from choreography, like dos à dos (‘back-to-back’) or tête-bêche (‘head-to-toe’). This dual meaning, also apparent in the festival’s title Druk (translating to both ‘edition’ and ‘pressure’), underscores publishing’s intrinsic connection to materiality – of printed matter and the writer’s/ reader’s physicality – and offers a premise for the exploration of the relationship between text and body. From the vantage points of the invited artist, writers, publishers, curators, and designers, frequently performing several of those roles simultaneously, the programme explores an expanded field of publishing, with a particular focus on its performative dimension. Taking place across two afternoons, the programme strings together a series of diverse contributions that in some places touch each other and address, amongst other, the position of writing and reading within artistic practice; how textual objects – books, scores, documents, records – can be (re)published through performance; and how networks and communities of practice are formed through publishing. | Related Info: | Cas-co Leuven | Category: | AOR | Type: | Artistic/designerly creation |
| Appears in Collections: | Artistic/designerly creations |
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