1. Introduction

      Reading Groups

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    1. Reading Groups

    2. If I Can’t Dance’s Reading Group started in 2006 and has been taking place monthly ever since. The Reading Group is a gathering of artists, critical thinkers, writers and various other readers from in- and outside the field of contemporary art, who come together at our office on Westerdok, to discuss new topics and directions in performative art practice and their relation to social and political issues.

      The Reading Group’s monthly reading material is currently selected from the field of research of affect.

      Alongside and parallel to the Reading Group in Amsterdam, If I Can’t Dance at present has two Satellite Reading Groups. Jacob Korczynski is leading a Reading Group at Art Metropole in Toronto, and Emma Cocker is leading one at Site Gallery in Sheffield. Both branches also concentrate on discussions of affect in theory and in contemporary artistic practice, and are set up as experiments in engaging with an audience from afar.

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        3 May 2012

        Reading Group in Sheffield Affect #5

        Spinoza’s Concept of Affect
        Site Gallery, London
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        19 April 2012

        Reading Group in Sheffield Affect #4

        Affective Labour and the Politics of Witnessing
        Site Gallery, London
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        28 March 2012

        Reading Group sessions Affect #16

        Hito Steyerl & Claire Bishop
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        22 March 2012

        Reading Group in Sheffield Affect #3

        Affect and Memory
        Site Gallery, Sheffield
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        8 March 2012

        Reading Group in Sheffield Affect #2

        Mobilizing Everyday Life / Fragments and Refrains
        Site Gallery, London
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        23 February 2012

        Reading Group in Sheffield Affect #1

        Affective Readings / Brian Massumi
        Site Gallery, London
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        22 February 2012

        Reading Group in Toronto Affect #6

        Jeremiah Day & Simone Forti
        Art Metropole, Toronto
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        29 January 2012

        Reading Group sessions Affect #15

        Erick Beltrán & Antonio Damasio
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        25 January 2012

        Reading Group in Toronto Affect #5

        Hito Steyerl
        Art Metropole, Toronto
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        21 December 2011

        Reading Group in Toronto Affect #4

        Sung Hwan Kim
        Art Metropole, Toronto
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        8 December 2011

        Reading Group sessions Affect #14

        Ann Cvetkovich & Lucien Febvre
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        30 November 2011

        Reading Group in Toronto Affect #3

        Emily Wardill & Brian Massumi
        Art Metropole, Toronto
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        2 November 2011

        Reading Group sessions Affect #13

        Emily Roysdon & Gregg Bordowitz
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        24 October 2011

        Reading Group in Toronto Affect #2

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh & Brian Massumi
        Art Metropole, Toronto
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        5 October 2011

        Reading Group sessions Affect #12

        Susan Sontag & Judith Butler
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        27 September 2011

        Reading Group in Toronto Affect #1

        Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick & Michael Hardt
        Art Metropole, Toronto
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        7 September 2011

        Reading Group sessions Affect #11

        Rhea Anastas, Gregg Bordowitz, Andrea Fraser, Jutta Koether, and Glenn Ligon
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        15 June 2011

        Reading Group sessions Affect #10

        Susan Best & Brian Holmes
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        11 May 2011

        Reading group sessions Affect #9

        Jan Verwoert & Jen Harvie
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        13 April 2011

        Reading group sessions Affect #8

        Lauren Berlant
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        16 March 2011

        Reading group sessions Affect #7

        Sara Ahmed & George Orwell
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        16 February 2011

        Reading group sessions Affect #6

        Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick & Leo Bersani
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        20 January 2011

        Reading group sessions Affect #5

        Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick & Lauren Berlant
        Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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        15 December 2010

        Reading group sessions Affect #4

        Giles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Michael Hardt
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        16 November 2010

        Reading group sessions Affect #3

        Baruch Spinoza & Gilles Deleuze
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        13 October 2010

        Reading group sessions Affect #2

        Brian Massumi
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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        7 September 2010

        Reading group sessions Affect #1

        Helen Molesworth & Louise Lawler
        If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam
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