1. BOOK LAUNCH
      12 May 2016, 7pm

      Launch of Rereading Appropriation

      G>E at Casa do Povo, Rua Três Rios 252, Bom Retiro, São Paulo
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    2. On Thursday 12 May at 7pm, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution’s Sister Reading Group in São Paulo will launch the latest reader, Rereading Appropriationat Casa do Povo.

      This reader compiles texts read in, and shared by, If I Can’t Dance’s four sister reading groups that were convened in Amsterdam, New York, São Paulo and Toronto at a monthly rhythm across Edition V — Appropriation and Dedication (2013–2014). The launch is organised by members of the São Paulo reading group and is hosted by the G>E Research Group on Creative Processes and Aesthetical Proposals, which is a "paracademic" group housed at Casa do Povo.

      Rereading Appropriation reconsiders the artistic strategy of appropriation through later elaborated theories of affect, to explore how an understanding of 'reciprocal investment' reconfigures appropriation as an act that is based in connecting, acknowledging and being porous to material. 

      The reader include texts from art history, feminist theory, political economy, anthropology, and artists, among others, by Richard Bell, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Adriana Cavarero, Darby English, Alfred Gell, Corinn Gerber, Isabelle Graw, Emma Hedditch, Bruce Hainley, Melanie Klein, Teresa de Lauretis, Sherrie Levine, Karl Marx, Helen Molesworth, Fred Moten, Adrian Piper, Henrik Olesen, Pauline Oliveros, Craig Owens, Suely Rolnik, Peter Stallybrass, Hito Steyerl, Ian White, and Slavoj Žižek. It also includes, essays by Kelly Kivland, Claudia Medeiros, Rachel O’Reilly, Alex Martinis Roe, the São Paulo Reading Group, the Toronto Reading Group, and Vivian Ziherl, and artist pages by Christian Nyampeta.

      The third in an ongoing series of readers, Rereading Appropriation joins the previous titles (Mis)reading Masquerades and Reading/Feeling, which originate in the research field that circumscribe each of If I Can’t Dance’s two-year Editions, and are designed by Joris Kritis and Julie Peeters. 

    3. Rereading Appropriation
      Edited by Tanja Baudoin, Frédérique Bergholtz and Vivian Ziherl
      Design by Joris Kritis and Julie Peeters
      Distribution by Idea Books in selected bookshops worldwide
      Published by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, 2015
      Price: launch price: R$35,– / All other orders: €20,–
      Order from Idea Books or from If I Can't Dance via shop@ificantdance.org
      ISBN 970-94-92739-04-7

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