Events

You—and a book of your choice—are warmly invited to join the social text* reading group. For this next edition of social text* we encourage you to bring the book you’ve been busy with all summer or the book on your summer reading list that you didn’t get to finish. Curious to know what kept you reading over hot days, and what didn’t make it to the beach.

Join us for the launch of Exocapitalism – Economies with absolutely no limits (becoming press 2025), with authors Roberto Alonso Trillo and Marek Poliks. Exocapitalism is a rigorous account of the dynamics of capitalism today through an in-depth exposition of software, speculative finance, and the highest scales of arbitrage.

Join us for the launch of Répondeur (Occasional Papers, 2025) by Slow Reading Club. With readings by Slow Reading Club, Will Holder, and Alicja Melzacka. Joined by Daniel Dariel on drums.

We’re excited to welcome you for a performance by artist Chipo Chipaziwa. She will present Slipping Into Slipping Away, a performance that deepens her ongoing investigation into the nuances of archiving performance art. The evening also celebrates the launch of her recent artist book My Mother, My Home (Archive Books, 2024).

Join us for an evening of readings and performances to celebrate the launch of We Circle Through The Night and Are Consumed by Fire edited by Simon Asencio and Pauline Hatzigeorgiou and published by SB34. The publication acts as a postscriptium to Simon Asencio’s exhibition Through The Valley of The Nest of Spiders at SB34—The Pool in Brussels, continuing its intertextual exploration of Samuel R. Delany’s sci-fi sexutopia through annotation, performance, and artistic collaboration.

We are delighted to welcome poet and activist Fariha Róisín to read from her most recent book of poems Survival Takes a Wild Imagination. Through the collection Róisín prays, claws, and scratches her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give. 

Join us for a summer reading group taking place on Tuesday evenings in July. Over the three sessions we will read through the wildly poetic and radically political Lesbian Peoples: materials for a dictionary written by Monique Wittig and Sandie Zeig in 1976. The reading will be held in english, french editions will be available. No prior study or reading necessary. 

Social text* is a collective practice that attempts to facilitate reading with and through pleasure, moving from conversational modalities toward experimental modes of poetry-making. Participants are encouraged to bring their own books, especially those they find difficult or resistant. Through cyclic phases of aleatory reading, writing, and discussion, we will gain new access to the text as social fields.

Join us for a reading by poet Bahaar Ahsan and artist Stefa Govaart. Stefa will read from letters and poems under the title “psalms/Duplicity”, using various intra-English translations of the psalms of the Old Testament as tools for language acquisition. Bahaar will read poems from a first full-length manuscript that deals with metonymy and love. 

Join us for the second edition of 'Talking with Time' - a Library Session all about time. In this coming gathering in Brussels we will study the relation between queerness and temporality, futurity and history. The source of our reflections will be an email exchange organized by Elizabeth Freeman in 2006 with Carolyn Dinshaw, Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, amongst others. We will take our time reading, asking and thinking together. 

Welcome to the launch of Crossings: creative ecologies of cruising by João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld. Hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. On the occasion of the launch Liz Rosenfeld will screen a series of short films – Tremble (2021), Liz/James/StillHoles (2017) and Daisy Chain (2014) – made on their experience of cruising.

We are excited to welcome you for an evening of readings by poets Rosie Stockton (US), author of Fuel and Permanent Volta, and Hannah Baer (US) author of trans girl suicide museum.