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Performance/Lesestück | Die Welt z/erlesen (Oktober 2025)

Ein Lesetagebuch, eine Mitschrift, Notizen. Ein Vortrag, ein Versuch nach vorn. Der Welt und all ihren Ereignissen lesend begegnen, lesend antworten, lesend ent- und beikommen. Ein Abend von und mit Heike Geißler und Anna Lena von Helldorff. Das z/erlesene Leben in einer z/erlesenen Welt.

Roundtable | Reading Matters (July 2025)

Against the backdrop of the current transformation of our reading culture, the roundtable with Laura Bieger, Hanan Natour and Heike Geißler aims to foreground the practice of reading literature both as a form of social participation and as a means of reflection for individuals and communities. Part of the EXC 2020 Annual Conference 2025 "Futures of Doing Literature", 9–11 July 2025.

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 were presented to the public at an event at daadgalerie in March 2025 and can be further explored in the publication "Illegibilities Reflecting Reading". In cooperation with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.

Performance Workshop | How to Sing a Picture? (June 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.

Workshops, Exhibition, Talks & Performances | READING READING ROOM (March 2025)

Paying special attention to the question of what happens when what we perceive as successful reading is blocked, the event highlights reading not only as a functional act of decoding information, but also as an aesthetic, sensual, affective, experimental and political practice in its own right. 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 (March 2025)

The workshop by the designers Robin Coenen and Danielle Rosales invites participants to explore reading material as a visual, structural and interpretive process. We will engage with unreadable textual artifacts, seeking new insights through artistic visual analysis and documenting our reading process through mappings.

Seminar | Theorien und Praktiken des Lesens (WS 24/25)

Was Virginia Woolf im Jahr 1926 schrieb, gilt bis heute: "though reading seems so simple – a mere matter of knowing the alphabet – it is indeed so difficult that it is doubtful whether anybody knows anything about it." Forschungsseminar am Peter Szondi-Institut und der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien, gemeinsam mit Julia Weber.

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