1. READING GROUP
      17 November 2016, 7.30pm

      São Paulo – Event and Duration #7

      Elizabeth Grosz and The Invisible Committee
      ateliê coletivo, São Paulo
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    2. On Thursday 17 November, the Sister Reading Group in São Paulo will continue with the seventh session of their ongoing Reading Group, which is currently focused on If I Can’t Dance’s research field of Edition VI – Event and Duration (2015–2016). The São Paulo Reading Group is organized by Andrea Lanzoni, Paula Ordonhes and Monica Rizzolli, and is hosted at their collective studio located in downtown São Paulo at Rua Major Sertório, 234, República.

      During this session the group will continue reading The Invisible Committee's To Our Friends, originally published in 2014 and edited in Brazilian Portuguese in 2016 by n-1 Editions, translated by Edições Antipáticas. Having read Chapter 1, “Merry Crisis and Happy New Fear”, and Chapter 2, “They Want to Oblige Us to Govern. We Won't Yield to that Pressure” previously, for this session they will focus on Chapter 3 “Fuck Off Google”.

      Alongside this the group will also read Elizabeth Grosz’ essay “Thinking the New: Of Futures Yet Unthought”, published in the book Becomings: Exploratios in Time, Memory, and Futures, edited by Elizabeth Grosz, and published by Cornell University Press in 1999.

    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 performance, contemporary art practice and their relation to social and political issues. The Reading Group’s monthly reading material is currently accruing through investigation into the thematic of Event and Duration.

      Alongside the Reading Group in Amsterdam, Sister Reading Groups are convened in New York, São Paulo and Toronto. Reading materials and key points of discussion are shared among the four groups, and at the end of each Edition compiled into a published Reader.

      Since 2013, If I Can’t Dance has also hosted an Open Reading Group at the start of each Edition, in which an artist is invited to lead a daylong session in a location around Amsterdam. For Edition VI – Event and Duration the invited artists were Denise Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri.

      1. READING GROUP

        16 December 2016, 7pm

        São Paulo – Event and Duration #8

        Thiago Mendonça
        ateliê coletivo, São Paulo
      2. READING GROUP

        11 December 2016, 3pm

        Toronto – Event and Duration #5

        Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti, and Peter Wollen
        8-11, Toronto
      3. Reading Group

        3 December 2016

        Open Reading Group

        Joke Robaard
        Plantage Dok, Amsterdam
      4. READING GROUP

        17 November 2016, 7.30pm

        São Paulo – Event and Duration #7

        Elizabeth Grosz and The Invisible Committee
        ateliê coletivo, São Paulo
      5. READING GROUP

        25 September 2016, 3pm

        São Paulo – Event and Duration #6

        Praça Roosevelt, São Paulo
      6. READING GROUP

        21 September 2016, 8pm

        Amsterdam – Event and Duration #6

        R.D. Laing
        If I Can’t Dance Offices, Amsterdam
      7. READING GROUP


        31 August 2016, 7pm


        Toronto – Event and Duration #4

        Octavia Butler
        
 8-11, Toronto
      8. READING GROUP


        26 August 2016, 7.30pm


        São Paulo – Event and Duration #5

        Chris Marker
        ateliê coletivo, São Paulo

      9. READING GROUP

        27 July 2016

        Amsterdam – Event and Duration #5

        José Esteban Muñoz
        If I Can’t Dance Offices, Amsterdam
      10. READING GROUP

        26 July 2016, 8–11pm

        Toronto – Event and Duration #3

        Lizzie Borden and Octavia Butler
        350 King Street West, Toronto
      11. READING GROUP

        22 July 2016, 7.30pm

        São Paulo – Event and Duration #4

        Vladimir Safatle
        ateliê coletivo, São Paulo
      12. READING GROUP

        24 June 2016, 7.30pm

        São Paulo – Event and Duration #3

        Hannah Arendt, Peter Pál Pelbart, Vladimir Safatle, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
        ateliê coletivo, São Paulo
      13. READING GROUP

        22 June 2016

        Amsterdam – Event and Duration #4

        Jon Davies and Elizabeth Freeman
        If I Can’t Dance Offices, Amsterdam
      14. READING GROUP

        17 June 2016, 7–9pm

        Toronto – Event and Duration #2

        Jon Davies and Tim Jocelyn
        Camrost Felcorp Yorkville Plaza Sales Centre, 21 Avenue Road, Toronto
      15. READING GROUP

        3 June 2016

        São Paulo – Event and Duration #2

        Paul B. Preciado, Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
        ateliê coletivo, São Paulo
      16. READING GROUP

        18 May 2016

        Amsterdam – Event and Duration #3

        Henri Lefebvre, Emily Roysdon, and Gertrude Stein
        If I Can’t Dance Offices, Amsterdam
      17. READING GROUP

        15 May 2016, 1–4pm

        Toronto – Event and Duration #1

        Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Lee Lozano
        8-11, Toronto
      18. READING GROUP

        27 April 2016

        São Paulo – Event and Duration #1

        Bojana Kunst
        ateliê coletivo, São Paulo
      19. READING GROUP


        20 April 2016

        Amsterdam – Event and Duration #2

        Paul Chan and Chus Martinez
        If I Can't Dance Offices, Amsterdam
      20. READING GROUP

        23 March 2016

        Amsterdam – Event and Duration #1

        Elizabeth Grosz and Alison Knowles
        If I Can't Dance Offices, Amsterdam
      21. READING GROUP

        27 September 2015, 11am–5pm

        Open Reading Group

        Denise Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri
        Bijlmer, Amsterdam
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