On Friday 16 December, the Sister Reading Group in São Paulo will conclude their current sessions of their ongoing Reading Group, which has been 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 watch the film Jovens Infelizes ou Um Homem que Grita Não é um Urso que Dança (2016), which translates as ‘Unhappy Youngsters or A Man Who Screams Is Not a Dancing Bear’. The director of the film, Thiago Mendonça, will be present during the encounter.
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.
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