SLOW SPATIAL READER | book launch

Free Home is proud to announce the launch of the 'SLOW SPATIAL READER: Chronicles of Radical Affection' a freshly printed 350-pages volume to which Alessanrda Pomarico has contributed with her new text called Holding Space Together.

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Tonight in Rotterdam the book 'SLOW SPATIAL READER: Chronicles of Radical Affection' will be launched at the Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Founding Animateur for the Centre Bronwyn Lace has contributed with a chapter titled: FIND THE LESS GOOD IDEA Animateuring | A Reflection on My Part

BOOK LAUNCH - SLOW SPATIAL READER

July 8th, 2021, 19:30–21:00

Het Nieuwe Instituut and online: https://thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/.../reading...

Join us at Het Nieuwe Instituut or via livestream for the event 'Reading Slow Spatial Practices' which marks the official launch of Slow Spatial Reader.

During the book launch, Slow Spatial Reader editor and founder and director of Slow Research Lab Carolyn F. Strauss will give a short introduction, followed by a talk by contributor to the book Ligia Nobre, architect, curator and current Het Nieuwe Instituut fellow (as a member of the collective O grupo inteiro). Ligia will talk about artist Camila Sposati's Earth Anatomical Theatre (2014), and how this one-year art piece functioned as an ‘amplifier of knowledge’ and a portal to the unknown.

After, Ligia and Carolyn will engage in a dialogue with researcher and landscape architect Daphne Bakker.

The program also includes a short film 'The Process' by Teresa Phuti Mojela and Katlego Chale curated by Bronwyn Lace as part of the Considered 3 Minutes series by The Centre for the Less Good Idea. The evening is moderated by Sarah van Binsbergen.

more on the SLOW SPATIAL READER: Chronicles of Radical Affection:

- A plea for 'slowness' on different levels, ranging from individual to collective to global

- Successor of the successful Slow Reader (Valiz, 2016), in which - just like in this book - 'slow' is the starting point for other rhythms, qualities, and scenarios.

- Trans-disciplinary, traveling through collective and individual power of imagination

Slow Spatial Reader offers a collection of essays about 'Slow' approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy from around the world. The book's contributors are from twenty-four countries on five continents. Each one brings distinct philosophical and disciplinary approaches — from 'spatial' fields like architecture, sculpture, and installation, but also performative, somatic and / or dramaturgical practices—, exploring how we think about and engage with space at a range of scales, tempos , and durations. The essays chronicle projects and processes that amplify tangible and intangible qualities of spatial experience: reaching into the cracks of the body, probing the fuzzy borders of atmospheres, and extending out across both geographical and epistemological coordinates. The term 'radical affection' in the book's title was coined to unite those diverse approaches in a call for tender acts of individual and collective imagination through which new forms of caring, connection, and resilience might emerge. Like its predecessor, Slow Reader (Valiz 2016), this new publication is intended to spur meaningful dialogue between disciplines and cultures, inspiring not only a different velocity of engaging the world but also critical shifts in consciousness that only Slow thinking and practice can provoke.

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Author / Editor: Carolyn F. Strauss

Contributors: Lara Almarcegui, Marijke Annema, Martina Buzzi, Nicolas Buzzi, Sol Camacho, Cave_bureau (Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi), Renske Maria van Dam, Chiara Dorbolò, Cocky Eek, Anna Maria Fink, David Habets, Ian Hanesworth, Maria Hassabi, Beate Hølmebakk, Saba Innab, Kū Kahakalau, Bronwyn Lace, Daniel Lie, Pia Lindman, Ruth Little, Megumi Matsubara, Ash McAskill, Kate Morales, Salima Naji, Ligia Nobre, Alessandra Pomarico, Maria Popova, Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) Jane Rendell, Angela Sakrison, Cristine Takuá, Li Tavor, Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx, Françoise Vergès, Sara Wookey

Design: Zuzana Kostelanská

Presentation on July 8th at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, that can also be followed via online livestream.

see more at VALIZ website

to join the launch online click here