At a time when the definition of art is shifting and the boundaries between mediums get blurred, Live Art Sessions opens a space for reflection and dialogue on the nature and scope of the performing arts among artists, students, scholars, and the public at large. Live Art Sessions offers a series of live performative pieces by artists ‘in transition,’ whose experimental works locate themselves in-
between different artistic and cultural practices, juxtaposing and combining the literary with the theatrical, the cinematic with the curatorial, the technological with embodied spectatorship, and reading with processional walking. The focus of the four selected pieces, and the scholarly events linked to them, is the notion of reading as a performative action that requires specific forms of participatory spectatorship. What happens if I walk when I read? What is the role of sound in reading? Is reading a form of art? How do we read archives? The guiding figure for this collective exploration is the work of the late Argentine writer and Princeton professor Ricardo Piglia, who wrote profusely about reading as an artistic, literary, epistemological, and political action. Curatorial Team
Vivi Tellas - Edgardo Dieleke - Gabriela Nouzeilles
