To celebrate the launch of If I Can’t Dance’s latest reader, Rereading Appropriation, we are pleased to offer a special price on the purchase of all three books in our ongoing reader series when you order them from If I Can't Dance via shop@ificantdance.org. This offer will be valid till the end of the year.

Originating in the field of research that circumscribe each of If I Can’t Dance’s two-year Editions, and designed by Joris Kritis and Julie Peeters, each reader compiles texts read in, and shared by, If I Can’t Dance’s reading groups convened in Amsterdam, and in sister locations that have included Bilbao, New York, São Paulo, Sheffield and Toronto. The texts traverse art history, feminist theory, political economy, anthropology, and artist’s writings, with each reader also including new essays and short statements by reading group members, and commissioned artist pages.

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

ISBN 970-94-92739-04-7

Rereading Appropriation compiles texts read in the sister reading groups of If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution during its Edition V— Appropriation and Dedication (2013– 2014). The thematic of Appropriation and Dedication 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 thematic looks into the relations between property and propriety, ownership and authorship, subjecthood and agency, and departs from the scene of 1970s and 1980s New York and its globalizing financial relations, to move into other territories of practice and thought. The texts shared among the sister reading groups—which convened in Amsterdam, New York, São Paulo and Toronto—include essays from art history, feminist theory, political economy, anthropology, and artist’s texts, among others. It also includes new essays and short statements by reading group members, and artist pages.

Rereading Appropriation include texts 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.

Reading / Feeling centers around the notion of affect, a term that delineates a field where the personal and the political meet through sensory movements between bodies. Affect, as a pre-emotional experience, constitutes the social and economic relationships that make up the fabric of society. Reading / Feeling considers the meaning of affect in theory and artistic practice, with a selection of texts by theoreticians, artists and curators that were read in If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution’s reading groups in Amsterdam, Toronto and Sheffield for the past two years, as part of the programme Edition IV—Affect (2010–2012). It also includes three new essays, short statements by reading group members, and artist pages.

Reading / Feeling includes text by: Sara Ahmed, Rhea Anastas, Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Lone Bertelsen, Gregg Bordowitz, Judith Butler, Jeremiah Day, Gilles Deleuze, Lucien Febvre, Simone Forti, Adam Frank, Andrea Fraser, Félix Guattari, Sharon Hayes, Michael Hardt, Brian Holmes, Jutta Koether, Glenn Ligon, Brian Massumi, Helen Molesworth, Andrew Murphie, Sina Najafi , George Orwell, Emily Roysdon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, David Serlin, Baruch Spinoza, Susan Sontag, Jan Verwoert, Mary Zournazi, plus essays by Tanja Baudoin, Emma Cocker, and Jacob Korczynski, contributions by reading group members and artist pages by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy.