For the fourth edition of Oemoemenoe, Vleeshal invited the artist duo Slow Reading Club, for a collective reading session in Middelburg. Slow Reading Club is a joint project of choreographer Bryana Fritz and artist Henry Andersen. Together they produce performative reading sessions in which visitors read together from a booklet of texts. Throughout the session, the process of reading is continually rerouted via specific protocols, creating an instability between the reader, reading, and text. This emphasizes the mechanics of how ‘meaning’ is made and unmade within a (collective) body of readers.

The reading session for Oemoemenoe will take place in collaboration with University College Roosevelt (UCR), a small, liberal arts college which is located in the same building as Vleeshal; the former city hall of Middelburg. The texts used for this session explore the relationship between ‘the host’ and ‘the parasite’ for which they will use literary sources such as The Parasite by Michele Serre and Word Rain by Madeline Gins. By engaging with various figures, participants explore themes of hospitality, generosity and exhaustion through the texts; for whom is the institution a host and for whom a parasite?

On May 30, Vleeshal is hosting Slow Reading Club in collaboration with UCR. The reading session will take place from 8pm to midnight at Vleeshal. Would you like to participate in the reading session? Then reserve a spot by emailing office@vleeshal.nl.

Events

30 May

Oemoemenoe #4: Slow Reading Club

6 – 9:55 pm 

Free Entrance