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Torque #2: THE ACT OF READING

out 11th April

“Not only is more writing, and more reading of that writing, being done now, and by more people than at any other time in history, there seem to be more and more different kinds of thing that reading can be, and more and more different kinds of entity, organic and technological, that are engaged in acts of reading. Reading inquisitively over each others’ shoulders, the poems, meditations, analyses and experiments in this volume respond with audacity and adventure to the challenge of characterising what reading, this most familiar yet renewedly strange occupation, has been and may yet become.”

—Steven Connor, Professor of English, Cambridge University

CONTENTS

11 Nathan Jones & Sam Skinner INTRODUCTION

21 N. Katherine Hayles NONCONSCIOUS COGNITION AND JESS STONER’S I HAVE BLINDED MYSELF WRITING THIS

39 Garrett Stewart TONGUE #2: ECHO NEURONS, SECONDARY VOCALITY, AND THE LEX-SEAM

75 Esther Leslie MOVING WORDS: FACTS OF READING

99 Hannah Proctor READING TIMES SQUARE: SIGNS, SURFACES AND SKIN IN THE CITY

117 James Wilkes READ-RECEIPT

130 Anna Barham DOUBLE LINES

133 Charles Bernstein FROM MY FREQUENCIES

153 Claire Potter EXTRACT FROM...

158 Sam Skinner THFREE TEXTZ

164 Nathan Jones MARTHAS TEXS

174 Erica Scourti THE OTHER DAY AND NIGHT

179 Alex Leff HOW THE BRAIN SAMPLES THE VISUAL WORLD WHEN READING AND HOW FOCAL BRAIN INJURY CAN DISRUPT THIS

199 Stephen Fortune BETWEEN EISEGESIS AND EIGENEGESIS: FRAMEWORKS FOR BEING READ

229 Liam Jones THE PLASTICITY OF READING: SELF AND TEXT

241 Soenke Zehle SCALING OUR SENSES: TYPE IN MOTION BETWEEN SENTIENT SEMIOSPHERES AND A SEMIOTICS OF INTENSITIES

267 Nina Power READING RIOTOUSLY

289 Grace Harrison UNARMED READING GROUPS

295 Eleanor Rees MARK-MAKING IN THE VIRTUAL

299 Tim Etchells Q&A WITH MARK GREENWOOD

315 BIOGRAPHIES

320 COLOPHON

TORQUE EDITIONS

Adrian Frutiger: Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning (1978–) [EN, FR]

via monoskop

“Universally-recognized signs and symbols have always been among the most important elements of communication. By why is it that certain configurations of dot and line, and certain primary shapes, are perceived and remembered more easily than others? Taking the six faces of dice as his starting point, Frutiger writes about signs and symbols in general and the development of writing in particular. Throughout, he relates the basic principles and components of graphics to a wide range of historical, physical, linguistic and practical considerations. He embraces everything from Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern company logos in his intriguing analysis of the way that humans have always tried to express thought and communication through graphic means. This standard work is aimed at all those concerned with graphics, design, ornament and communication in general.”

Originally published as Der Mensch und seine Zeichen, 3 vols., Weiss Verlag, Dreieich, 1978-81.English edition

Translated by Andrew Bluhm Publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1989 ISBN 0442239181 360 pagesWorldCat (EN)Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning (English, trans. Andrew Bluhm, 1989, low res, 39 MB)

L’Homme et ses signes: Signes, symboles, signaux, PDF (French, trans. Danielle Perret, 2nd ed., 1999/2014, 5 MB)See also Frutiger’s Type Sign Symbol, 1980.

http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13988

BEING BEING READ BEING READING BEING READ AND READING BEINGS

An exhibition by Torque atFurtherfield, London

Open Saturdays and Sundays 11am – 5pm -11th, 12th, 18th & 19th April, 2015

http://www.furtherfield.org

with performances by Tim Etchells and Alex McLean (11th April) and Claire Potter and Mez Breeze (18th April)

being being read being reading being read and reading beings is an exhibition by Torque (Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner) that unpacks the project’s first year through the lens of its most recent research subject: reading.

Torque is a project that explores conflations of mind, language and technology, across publications, performance, symposia, workshops and installations. For the exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery, each of the three gallery spaces will comprise an archival revisiting of a publication produced over the last year by Torque, along with the events and artworks that surround its conception.

Using a variety of performance documentation, text, sound and video works, the gallery will become a hypermedia reading room, for visitors to explore both the Torque project and its publications to date, but also the act of reading itself.

Room 1 will be dedicated to the Torque #1 publication (http://linkeditions.tumblr.com/torque1) and related workshops and performances. This will include artworks from Mez Breeze, Karl Heinz Jeron, Alex McLean, and a composition by cellist Oliver Coates, as well as texts from neuro-archeologist Lambros Malafouris and professor of political aesthetics Esther Leslie.

Room 2 will present The Opticon newspaper, produced over two days at Tate Liverpool focusing on themes of privacy and surveillance, in particular machinic reading, big data and the phenomenology of ‘being read’. Comprising contributions from over 100 gallery visitors, poets, artist Erica Scourti and professor of social media Christian Fuchs. Copies of the newspaper will be available free to visitors.

Room 3 will launch a new interdisciplinary digital and print publication exploring reading today, in particular the impact of technology upon it. Including new texts by Tim Etchells, Katherine Hayles, Nina Power, Garrett Stewart and Soenke Zehle, produced following The Act of Reading symposium at FACT, Liverpool and a performance event at Static Gallery. This room will also feature new video works by Jones and Skinner synthesizing and investigating reading-related pathologies and pedagogical systems.

Jones and Skinner will be in the gallery throughout the exhibition presenting their work, and asking members of the public of all ages to contribute to ongoing works informed by their experiences and conversations. These works in process will be shown as sound and print broadcast and ‘published’ on the exterior of the gallery building using external speakers and poster artworks.

All the talks from the Torque #2: The Act of Reading Symposium

Produced in two days at Tate Liverpool, Feb 2015. 5000 copies printed and distributed. A special blue digital version available here. Edited by Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner. Designed by Mark Simmonds. Part of Torque #2 - The Act of Reading.

Test run of a video work for reading aloud.

Source text is a poem by Charles Bernstein http://www.tabletalk.io/post/charles-bernstein appropriated with respect

imaging of dyslexia "Strephosymbolia"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strephosymbolia

Rhys Trimble // Pwylldreisio*

Rhys Trimble

Pwylldreisio* or the pernicious effects of mindrape on city-dwellers.

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rhys trimble/Ed Snowden

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#opticon

http://readingclub.fr/info/

Torque #2: performance > Tim Etchells, Anna Barham, James Wilkes

New works on the theme of The Act of Reading.

*21st January* *8pm - 11pm* *at Static Gallery*

tickets £3 HERE _[free for attendees of Torque Symposium]_

Line up

###TIM ETCHELLS

_Broadcast/Looping Pieces_

The heart of this mesmerising and provocative work is a live remixing of pages from Etchells notebook – a computer document in which, over many years, he has gathered texts of many different kinds. Fragments of overheard conversation, cut-paste quotations direct from newspaper articles and web pages, ideas for performances, rough drafts, and other notes sit side by side in this textual scrapbook. For the performance Etchells selects, intercuts and remixes material from these texts which he has stored away over the years, creating a torrent of language that often loops and repeats on individual lines, editing and re-writing on the fly, creating new dialogues and juxtapositions.

*Tim Etchells* is an artist, performance maker and writer, who has worked in a variety of contexts, notably in his role as artistic director of the performance ensemble Forced Entertainment, based in Sheffield and founded in 1984. Etchells’s practice extends through writing and performance projects, neon and video works, through diverse collaborations. He is the author of several books, including a critical exploration of contemporary performance and theatre, a dream dictionary and a novel.

###JAMES WILKES

_Read-Receipt: A Performance for Receipt Printers and People_

3 ethernet-connected receipt printers are set up in the performance space. Over the course of a 20-minute performance, they produce 120 receipts (one every 30 seconds), each one printed with a different text. The texts will explore the economies of reading, performing and conversing. They will highlight the transactional and contractual relationships between reader and writer, instructor and doer, speaker and listener. The performance frees the receipt from its functional straitjacket, and turns it into a synecdoche for these reciprocal relationships, modern equivalent of a ‘tally stick’, notched and split to make tangible the indebtedness of one to another.

*James Wilkes* is a poet, writer, performer and researcher who has collaborated widely with scientists, artists and musicians. He is Associate Director of Hubbub, a multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners investigating the dynamics of rest, noise, tumult, activity and work, as they operate in mental health, neuroscience, the arts and the everyday. www.renscombepress.co.uk / www.hubbubgroup.org / @wilkesjames

###ANNA BARHAM

_Volume II_

Audience members are invited to read aloud a prepared text into a voice-recognition interface. Barham's dense and strange language strains the dictation software, and produces a new site for collaborative reading and the construction of meaning.

With a practice that incorporates writing, video, drawing, sculpture and performance, *Anna Barham*’s work interrogates language’s endless and unruly potential through the bodily and technological operations that act upon it.

_The Torque #2 symposium and performance event marks the start of a 6-month programme of work on The Act of Reading, which will also include a 2-day booksprint at Tate Liverpool 7-8th February, an exhibition at Furtherfield during March-April, and a new publication of essays and writing-on-reading. Follow torquetorque.tumblr.com to stay up to date_

_Torque #2 is funded by an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts_ _and delivered in partnership with FACT and Tate Liverpool_

#reading #performance #liverpool

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"Word in Process" (2012) is a text instrument developed by Lieven Van Speybroeck.

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