At the end of October 2024, an internal hybrid workshop allowed the participating artists and scholars to share the current state of their engagement with reading as an aesthetic practice in preparation for the publication of their findings in a collection of essays and various participatory and performative formats. On the basis of material circulated prior to the event – auto-theoretical essays, visual iterations and concepts for collective forms of reading are but a few of many examples – the participants explored reading as doing in the interplay of different processes, actors and entities.

Following the exchange, the essays were readied for publication in con·stel·la·tions 03: Illegibilities Reflecting Reading; the visual, participatory and performative contributions will be presented as READING READING ROOM on 18 March 2025 at daadgalerie in Berlin.

With: Jessica Barr (literary scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Charlotte Coch (literary scholar, University of Basel), Ulrike Draesner (author, translator), Angélica Freitas (author, translator; DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellow 2020), Raisa Inocêncio Ferreira Lima (philosopher, University of Rio de Janeiro, EXC 2020 Fellow 2024), Elias Kreuzmair (literary scholar, University of Siegen), Karolin Meunier (artist, performer), radical data (collective of mathematicians, technologists, dancers and designers), Michael T. Taussig (anthropologist, Columbia University New York), Nhã Thuyên (author, publisher; DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellow 2023), Kinga Tóth (sound poet, performer; DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellow 2023), Sarah Bro Trasmundi (cognitive ethnologist, University of Oslo und University of Southern Denmark), visual intelligence (transdisciplinary studio for visual communication)

Concept and Organisation: Barbara Bausch, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies"