Baudoin T., Bergholtz F., Ziherl V., Reading / Feeling, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam, 2013
- 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 / Feelingconsiders 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.Reading / Feeling
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 I If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, 2013
ISBN: 978-90-814471-0-2
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- 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.
Order from If I Can't Dance via our webshop.
Price: €20,– Dossier
Book Launch
7 March – 7 May 2013Launch of Reading / Feeling in Sheffield
with two performances by Anna Barham and Emma CockerSite Gallery, Sheffieldseminar
20 January 2013Appropriation and Dedication Seminar
Gerry Bibby, Gregg Bordowitz, Jacob Korczynski, a work by Louise Lawler, Sven Lütticken, Helen Molesworth, Grant WatsonGoethe Institut, Amsterdam
