Fri 17 December until Sat 18 December 2021 19h30-22h00
rile* welcomes Clara Amaral with her performance work 'She gave it to me I got it from her'. It is a book and a choreography, read out loud and handled by a performer, for a group of people.
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Fri 05 November 2021 (19h30)
Welcome for the launch of Cruiser L'Utopie by José Esteban Muñoz (Brook, 2021), the first French translation of Cruising Utopia (NYU Press, 2009).
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Thu 21 October 2021 (19:30)
Join us for A SPACESHIP MOMENT, a hybrid talk between drama and ISABEL WAIDNER on their latest novel STERLING KARAT GOLD.
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Sat 09 October 2021 (19h00-23h00)
Join us for a collective reading of Monique Wittig's epic novel Les Guérillères (1969) as a part of the first edition of Lesbiennale, Lesbian* Arts Festival. Together we will read an annotated version of the entire 144 pages of the novel, translated to english in 1971 by David La Vay.
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Sat 25 September 2021 (19h30)
Welcome for the launch of Stage of Recovery, a new publication by Georgia Sagri (Divided, 2021).
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Thu 16 September 2021 (19h30)
Welcome for the launch of Atlas Europe Square, a publication by Yves Mettler (Urbanomic, 2021).
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Sat 11 September 2021 (19h30)
Welcome to the launch of Sisters of the Wind, a publication by Juliette Lizotte and Office of Metaphors, with an interactive audiovisual performance of the world, inspiring potions and mysterious spell books. Sisters of the Wind is the fruit of artistic research on witches, ecofeminism, and science-fiction.
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Thu 19 August until Sat 21 August 2021
Over three days in August we installed a reading salon at SAAL Biennaal in Tallinn. Housed in the cellar of Kanuti Gildi Saal visitors were invited to read, converse and hangout in the space. During the opening hours of the reading room/bookshop, we screened “Xenotopia” a newly commised film by Quanta Qualia (Siet Raeymaekers and Tomàs Dittborn).
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Mon 26 July until Fri 27 August 2021
Summer Closing
We are closed this summer from the 26th of July until the 26th of August. In August, we will be with some books at the SAAL Biennaal 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Maybe see you there! The webshop will be closed between the 10th and 19th of August, so packages won't be sent out during that period. Have a beautiful summer. x
Wed 30 June 2021 (18:00 - 21:00)
Welcome to “Living contents”, a set of lectures, publications and performances by students and guests of the ReadingListeningSpeaking seminar at Erg Brussels.
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Sat 26 June until Sun 27 June 2021 (19h - 22h)
Welcome to rile* for the live reading of If Repeatedly Then Reception, with Bryana Fritz, Quinsy Gario and Stefan Govaart. If Repeatedly Then Reception reads texts repeatedly. More than one, it summons simultaneity and seeks a third sentence. Day one draws together a selection of texts by authors who wrote with devotion unto us the readers. Day two offers devotions the readers wrote themselves.
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Sat 12 June 2021 (14h-22h)
Welcome for the day-long launch of Family Nexus, a new publication by Sophie Nys, Maud Gourdon, Liene Aerts and Leila Peacock. With presentations on Saturday at 6, 7, 8 and 9pm.
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