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Featured Format | READING READING: IL/LEGIBLE

The format IL/LEGIBLE engages with reading in a transdisciplinary investigation starting from its absolute limit: the illegible. The results of this exploration in the form of essays, performances, visual works and workshop concepts by thirteen artists and scholars from a broad variety of disciplines will be presented to the public at large in the publication "Illegibilities Reflecting Reading" (con·stel·la·tions 03) and at an event at daadgalerie on 18 March 2025.

In cooperation with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Workshops, Exhibition, Talks & Performances | READING READING ROOM: Dealing with Illegibility (18 March 2025)

We commonly understand 'reading' as a mental technique that involves the visual recognition of written signs, the actualisation of the sound image of words and the comprehension of their meaning. But at the same time, reading produces something that cannot be derived from what is read alone. In response to this difficulty, READING READING ROOM brings together scholars and artists to explore and discuss the precarious practice of reading by reflecting on its absolute limit: the illegible.

Workshop | Mapping Textual Spaces: Visual Strategies to Approach the Unreadable (18 March 2025)

The workshop invites participants to explore reading material as a visual, structural and interpretive process. Together, we will engage with unreadable textual artifacts, seeking new insights through artistic visual analysis and documenting our reading process through mappings.

Performance Workshop | How to Sing a Picture? (18 March 2025)

In her performances, the visual and sound poet Kinga Tóth 'sings' visual works by responding with vocal gestures to filmed and projected graphic poems and drawings, understanding these interpretations of her visual poetry as three-dimensional 'living text bodies', or, more simply, as 'readings'. The aim of this workshop is to build bridges between languages and reading practices, and to celebrate the act of creation, of sounding together.

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