A READ*NG =F THE P~~L [5 SECS BEF=RE THE SPLASH], two modalities: Performative essay & collaborative reading, for five voices, with André Lourrenço, Angelo Custódio, Arthur Guilleminot, Boyan Montero & Patrick Schmatzer, ca. 40min, Goblin Market, ISO Amsterdam

A READ*NG =F THE P~~L [5 SECS BEF=RE THE SPLASH] is a performative essay and proposed as a collaborative reading for five voices, for one to look at the pool as a space of potent reparation and regeneration. In a “necessarily iterative, circling style of thought” (Morton 2013) A READ*NG =F THE P~~L [5 SECS BEF=RE THE SPLASH] looks at the pool, once a structured and oppressive space as a place to let go. Because there is nowhere else to be than inside of it, we speculate upon meeting the unknown, one’s own desires. If one follows the impulse of trans*formation, one stretches the limits of the body in the liquid. A READ*NG =F THE P~~L [5 SECS BEF=RE THE SPLASH] is an archipelago of familiar strangers: revisited autobiographical flows, intertwined with outbursts, critical analysis and speculation upon a more fluid future. These intra-weaved narrative(s) bring the personal to the structural while its dialogical modality and its participatory aspect amplifies the 'affect' in the reader. Affect arises from the in-between-ness and found “in those intensities that pass body to body (human, nonhuman, part-body, and otherwise), in those resonances that circulate about, between, and sometimes stick to bodies and worlds, and in the very passages or variations between these intensities and resonances themselves” (Gregg & Seigworth 2010).