COLLECTIVE READING with Anika Barkan

Explore how we can affect our ability to listen to or experience a text.

 

Format: COLLECTIVE READING
Genre: Conversation and knowledge sharing

Date: 14th May + 10th June.
Time: 17:00-19:00
Place: Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen NW

The event is free, but please reserve your spot – you can book it right here:

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Photographer: Trine Brandt Ryhede

Come to Collective Reading with performance-maker Anika Barkan. 

Over two evenings, Anika will focus on how movement/touch and sound/music, affect our ability to listen to or experience a text. The first evening we will focus on movement/touch, the second evening the focus will be on sound/music.

We will be working with two different texts that have both been of great inspiration to Anika’s performative work. You will not need to have read the texts before - you will be reading excerpts from the books collectively. During each session, and through different exercises, we will have time to reflect on how experiencing a text trough movement/touch or sound/music, influence the experience of the text. 

The texts we will be working with are from the books Grief is a thing with feathers by Max Porter and The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vessas. Both books deal with grief and how your world gets shattered in the process of mourning. 

In Grief is a thing with feathers, Max Porter deals with the harshness of continuing an everyday life, in the midst of a mourning process, but also how the everyday banalities may be the most healing in this process. 

Tarjei Vessas story, The Ice Palace, focuses on the sudden, powerful and unexpected friendship of two eleven-year-old girls; on roaming around, secrets, passion, loss and the bravery of enter the unknown.

For the first evening it is a good idea to wear some clothes that you feel comfortable moving in. You don’t have to have any experience with performance, dance or movement to participate in either evenings, we won’t do any strenuous exercise’s. Both evenings are open for all. 

About Anika Barkan

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Anika Barkan is a performance-maker with 30 years versatile and international experience within performing arts. She is part of MØR collective, an interdisciplinary award-winning platform for artistic co-creation, where the collective process is a cornerstone. We create through a dynamic interplay between artistic genres, expertise and play. Working on socially engaged and norm critical art projects. Our goal is to create accessible works that resonate with audiences, broaden our perspective and train our empathic compass and engagement with the contemporary world.

About COLLECTIVE READING

Collective Reading is an event where we read together. We invite an artist or teacher to open up and play with the way we read: What happens when we read collectively, embodied or guided? Is it possible to find another way to read and engage with texts than we have previously done?