We are excited to invite you to ...have ...word, our second series of bimonthly reading groups.

In this series, we will look into the concrete and spectral forces attempting to govern our languages. Through poetry and essay, we will dissect the frameworks that shape the way words act in the world and on our bodies. Questioning what it is to have, to hold, to let go, to be transformed by language.

The texts within this series unpack translation as a practice of disorientation, the foreign as an affective state of estrangement, poetry as a reinvention of bodily grammar and the investment in craft as a political necessity for narrating the complexities of our lived experience.

We will read, interrelate, and converse with Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Etel Adnan, Don Mee Choi, Farid Matuk and Joyelle McSweeney.

The reading group will be facilitated by Ros and Ire.

Sign up for the reading group sessions here.

Schedule

Sun 26th May — 12h00-14h00
We will read To Write in a Foreign Language by Etel Adnan.

Sun 9th June — 12h00-14h00
We will read from work by poet Farid Matuk.

Sun 23rd June — 12h00-14h00
We will read Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi.

Sun 7th July — 12h00-14h00
We will read Translation is a mode=translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode by Don Mee Choi and The Deformation Zone by Joyelle McSweeney.

For whom
This reading group is for anyone who wants to read, listen and converse. No prior reading or preparation is required. You can attend only one session but we highly encourage you to participate more than once. A PDF and printed reader with all texts will be provided after making a reservation. The reading group will be held in english, but we welcome any language into the conversation.

Access & Location
The event will take place in person at our space, between 12h00 and 14h00. We have tea, coffee and water. For sitting, we have stools, chairs and pillows. Feel free to bring your reading and writing tools, food and friends :) If you have any access requirements do not hesitate to write us at info @ rile.space

[Credits]
The cover image uses a section of Mingyu Jia's Experimental Typography Series Vol 4. (https://www.instagram.com/mingyu_jia/)