Reading/Feeling is a new publication based on a series of
international reading groups linked to the Amsterdam based project If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to be Part of Your
Revolution (IICD). Building on intellectual paradigms such as performativity,
theatricality and feminism(s), it interrogates
ideas of affect in relation to art practice, the
construction of subjectivity and the politics of identity. At the invitation of IICD, I hosted a reading
group at Site Gallery in Sheffield (February - May 2012), concurrently with
reading groups in Amsterdam (led by Tanja Badoin) and Toronto (led Jacob
Korczynski). Reading/Feeling brings together a collection of texts
interrogated within these reading groups, alongside a number of framing texts / position essays from the
reading group facilitators. Reading/Feeling follows the model of a
previously published reader, (Mis)reading Masquerades
, (eds.)
Frédérique Bergholtz and Iberia Pérez
, produced by IICD in
collaboration with Dutch Art Institute and Piet Zwart Institute, and will be
launched as part of a symposium in Amsterdam in January. Below is my text
'Reading Towards Becoming Causal' which will be published as one of the
introductory essays for this publication.