READING AS ART

The book explores of the possibilities of reading as an artistic act. The works displayed and under discussion find different means to foreground and to investigate the activity of reading: the forms it can take (silent reading, reading aloud, spontaneous reading, purposeful reading, and so on), the matter of reading (the book, the screen, the space of the page), the bodies that engage in it a nd the contexts in which it occurs. All of the works make reading manifest in some way/ in so doing, they each show differently how reading ...[Read more]