<div><span><b>Read & Repair - The Automated Body feat. Katarina Jazbec & MELT (Loren Britton + Isabel Paehr)</b></span><br></div><div><b>at Varia, Charlois Rotterdam (NL)</b><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date:</b><span> Sunday, 27th June 2021</span></span><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid832"><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid833"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Time:</b><span> 11:00-13:00 CEST<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b> (READ)</b></span></span></span><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid834"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 14:00-16:00 CEST <b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">(REPAIR)</span></b></span><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid835"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Physical Location for READ:</b><span> Gouwstraat 3, and then we go to the park next to Varia</span></span><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid836"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Online Location for REPAIR</b><span>: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/cri-yp7-stj-8oc" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/cri-yp7-stj-8oc&source=gmail&ust=1624396083799000&usg=AFQjCNEaUD2-tYvM4u4nxhezB3_QpIsOhw">https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/cri-yp7-stj-8oc</a> </span></span><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid837"><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid841"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Invitation to an in-person collective reading session with Katarina Jazbec,and an online repair session <span><i>Rituals against Barriers</i> by MELT</span></span><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid841"><br></div><div><span class="colour" style="color:#2A47F6"><b>READ</b></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
text selection and our reading choreography in June was made by artist
Katarina Jazbec. This Read session will be overflown with no bullshit
tales on living and dying together on damaged earth. How are we to live
in the ruins with the dead and the living? Arundhati Roy’s ghost
vultures and Anjum, a Muslim Hijra, in her opening chapter of <span><i>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness</i> and <i>The Camille Stories</i> in the closing chapter of the <i>Staying with the Trouble</i> by Donna J. Haraway, speculative fabulations, will render us capable of
response in disturbing times. Be careful, to read about and follow the
five future generations of Camille People and the Monarch Butterflies,
until the year 2425 when human numbers are largely reduced, even if
coated in the context of science fiction, is not an innocent
undertaking. Before you know it you’ll be deep down your knees in the
compost.</span></span><br></div></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid829"><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid829"><b><span class="colour" style="color:#2A47F6">REPAIR</span></b><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid830"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
Repair session of this theme is hosted by arts-design researchers MELT.
For this repair session we will work with and around the project <span><i>Rituals against Barriers</i></span><span> by MELT which is inspired by the multiple practices of survival in the
face of oppression which take the form of ritual practice. Rituals can
invite a stepping away from whatever normativities and can allow entry
into practices such as: Refusing to ignore a feeling, refusing to not
listen to your body because doing so would make apparent the ableism of
any space, refusing to speed up even if that is the normalised tempo.
Rituals can be moments of joy, of refusal, collective practice, of
uncomfort and unlearning. Rituals are often a pathologized aspect of a
lived disability experience (what makes something a ritual and not a
habit?). One example of this is stimming, the repetition of movements or
sounds that one finds calming or joyful. In this repair session we will
practice some pre-described rituals from the project and be prompted to
invent new ones as ways of finding access into spaces, places, feelings
and technologies.</span></span><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid831"><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid831"><b>Link for further information:</b><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid832"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://varia.zone/en/rr-automated-body-2.html&source=gmail&ust=1624396083799000&usg=AFQjCNHrxc_njWYE0B6MI4SUxszskiks0Q" target="_blank" href="http://varia.zone/en/rr-automated-body-2.html" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://varia.zone/en/rr-automated-body-2.html</a></span><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid832"><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid832"><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid841"><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid841"><span class="colour" style="color:#222222">Read & Repair is a monthly workshop series coming out of Varia, </span>a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology.<span class="colour" style="color:#222222"> <br></span></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid841"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">During
May and June 2021, we will be exploring the theme The Automated Body. <br>How can we read our bodies? With self-reflective modes of reading and
moving we will reconsider our bodies and their actions towards texts and
our physical environment. <br>We will discuss labour and movements that
cannot be automated, in a machine controlled world.</span></div></div></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid62"><br></div><div id="m_-2821768150927050464gmail-m_5987693690456070820magicdomid63"><span><span style="color:rgb(42,71,246)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~</span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>(^◡^ )<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton"></div></div><div><br></div>