Index / MAP Reading Group
(Be)longing by Daniella Valz Gen
A poetic document on Valz Gen’s embodied landscape interventions which examine the act of burial as a way to reflect on the migrant body. This is the final invited contribution in response to the Penetrate: Translate series
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A new text by Dolores Dorantes. Translated by Catalina Barroso-Luque
Can Loneliness Perform a Politics?
‘To be alone. Together. To not brush the feeling of loneliness off. To not console. To not ask to be consoled. To not mask our difference… To not try to make the other one of us.’ Catalina Barroso-Luque reflects on her project Penetrate: Translate—an exercise in the political practice of being lonely together. Four texts celebrate the conclusion of the eponymous five session reading group
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Final session. Pinochet Porn in Progress by Ellen Cantor. CCA Clubroom, Monday 9 December, 6.30pm
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Session Four. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil. CCA, Monday 25 November, 6.30pm
Penetrate: Translate reading group overview
A MAP reading group led and devised by Catalina Barroso-Luque, a Mexican artist living in Glasgow.
Penetrate: Translate reading group
Session three. Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation. CCA, Monday 11 November, 6.30pm
Thank you for writing to me so often, you are revealing yourself to me in the only way you can
Laura Edbrook reflects on the reading and discussion group ‘Sick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women’ co-run with Emma Balkind and presented by MAP between autumn 2013 and autumn 2014. ‘Sick Sick Sick’ was an open reading project based online and at the CCA, Glasgow and examined a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
Session Seven : CCA Cinema, Thu 30 Oct, 6.30pm, reading ‘Literal Madness’ by Kathy Acker
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers | Session Six : 6.30pm, CCA Cinema, Thu 25 Sep : reading Love Dog by Masha Tupitsyn
#31 - April 2014
MAP Reading Group
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers | Session Five, Travis Jeppeson, The Suiciders, CCA Clubroom, Thursday 29 May, 6.30pm
#31 - April 2014
MAP Reading Group
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers | Session Four
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women
A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers