H A U T

COLLECTIVE READING with Abdul Dube

Making experiments to expand our reading experience

Format: COLLECTIVE READING
Genre: Conversation and knowledge sharing

Date: 8th May and 5th June
Time: 5:00-7:00PM
Place: HAUT, Lygten 39, 2400 Kbh NV

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

Photographer Morten Arnfred

This COLLECTIVE READING is stretched out over two evenings – we highly encourage you to take part in both, but it is also possible to join just one evening. These two collective reading sessions are facilitated by Abdul Dube and will focus on expanding and challenging our reading experience.

On 8th May

In this first session Abdul will facilitate a collective reading through the act of organized listening:

"Reading isn't always a breeze—it takes time and practice to decode complex symbols and grasp their meanings. But beyond just reading words, there's a whole world of strategies to explore: pausing, reflecting, and even filling in the gaps when our understanding falters." - Abdul Dube

Expanding on the idea of Modeled Dialogues in the arts, Abdul is excited to invite you to an experience where listening and reading aloud becomes the main event. Together, you will dive into a space that emphasizes deep listening and offers fresh perspectives on our world.

This experiment unfolds in two parts during the evening, with listening and reading working hand in hand. In the first part, you’ll be immersed in a variety of 1-minute audio clips that artists and makers working with sound from Abdul’s network has contributed to this event. Inspired by the procedures of the Ultra-Red collective, you’ll engage in a procedure that encourages active participation and collective creation.

Moving on to part two, you will explore choral reading and the imaginative processes of art-making, drawing from Abdul’s encounters with DERIVES and psychogeography from the situationist movement.

On 5th June

Abdul will set the set the scene for reflecting on our undying urge to recreate a primal experience of intimacy with the surrounding world, this session will offer notes on technology and animism in an age of ecological wipeout.
More information coming soon..

About Abdul Dube

Born in '||Hui !Gais' indigenous Khoe language meaning "where clouds gather." Now known only as  “(Cape Town)” South Africa.

Abdul Dube is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, curator and workshop facilitator based in Aarhus, Denmark. His work concerns questions of multicultural belonging, racism and resistance, intersectional solidarity, heritage, sustainability aka survival, Black imagination and artivism.

Abdul’s related work includes facilitating an "Antiblack racism in our public archives" workshop with Black Archives Sweden; teaching, writing and creating Zines for the Horizon-2020 funded project European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities; and Creative Liaison to the Aros Art Museum Education Department 2019-2020, visual harvestor and facilitator with the indonesian collective Ruangrupa for 2022 documenta15.

Abdul also keeps to an artistic praxis as print maker, concentrating on lino and silkscreen as a means of decompression after intense facilitation work. Most recent he has endevoured into the realm of audio/sonic and audio documentary as another tool for storytelling and has embarked on the “droster aesthetica series” looking at modern day maroons, quilombos and drosters.

Learn more about Abdul and his work here:
Website: www.abduldube.de // https://abdultest.persona.co/Droster-Aesthetica
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user6412302
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/avantafro
For zines on Issuu.com, search: Abdul Dube.

ABOUT COLLECTIVE READING

Collective Reading is a format 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?