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ON READING AS A SOCIAL RELATION

online reading group

June, 2021

Participants: Noa Treister, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Baran Carangli, Dana Andrei, Beatrice Anghelache, Cătălin Gheorghe, Maxim Polyakov, Mădălina Muscă, Bogdan Popa, Ovidiu Pop, Valentin Cernat, Smaranda Ursuleanu, Andrei Timofte, Ruxandra Simion, Delia Bulgaru, Florin Bobu, Livia Pancu.

The debate between Jean Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot started in the 80’s around the question of the constitution of a community in the exchange surrounding Nancy’s The Inoperative Community and Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community, and recently a belated answer in Nancy’s The Disavowed Community surround the question of reading and the subject. Following these texts we will be asking who is the subject that reads and how is reading always already together. This has extreme relevance to artists and scholars that find themselves frequently outside the conventional professional gathering places like galleries, museums or universities and are craving dialog and a sense of community.

Bibliography:
Jean Luc Nancy, La Communauté désœuvrée (The Inoperative Community/ Comunitatea absentă)
Maurice Blanchot, La Communauté inavouable (The Unavowable Community/ Comunitatea de nemărturisit)
Jean Luc Nancy, Communauté désavouée (The disavowed community / Comunitatea dezavuată)
This reading group is part of the EXHIBITION AS READING project.
IMAGE: Vida Gheza, Lectura, 1940, St. Cyprien; Serviciul Judeţean Maramureş al Arhivelor Naţionale, Colecția personală Prof. Univ. Raoul Șorban, inv.1270, dosar 4

This reading group is part of the EXHIBITION AS READING project.

The main partner of tranzit.ro is ERSTE Foundation.

IMAGE: Vida Gheza, Lectura, 1940, St. Cyprien; Serviciul Judeţean Maramureş al Arhivelor Naţionale, Colecția personală Prof. Univ. Raoul Șorban, inv.1270, dosar 4