Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/27-08-2022 -Event 1

Outside event: The Read & Repair sessions are back!

Read & Repair - Vegetality and Virtuality feat. Georgiana Cojocaru and Bérénice Staiger

From August 2022 to January 2023, Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronica Depot hold Read & Repair events on the last Saturday of every month. We invite you to visit our space, make yourself comfortable, read or repair some things together, and share thoughts and ideas. For these events lunch will be served in the hour between workshops.

READ Date: Saturday, 27th August 2022 Time: 11:00-13:00 CEST Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) + Online (https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/cri-hgz-jrl-aqp/)

LUNCH 13:00 - 14:00 we share a free, catered lunch for participants.

REPAIR Date: Saturday, 27th August 2022 Time: 14:00-16:00 CEST Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)

READ The title comes from the work of Georgiana Cojocaru. In the Read session with Georgiana Cojocaru, we will discuss what are the virtual, fragile and always threatened possibilities for recovery of a body which is considered beyond repair, beyond any semblance to a former self. What attracts possibilities for re-knowing and re-ordering a living being ? How does a shattered mind move? When the poetic act tries to stay within this state, map its ambiance, its pulsations, its circuitous rhythsms what kind of creations emerge? How close is poetry to sentience? How could a stuttering, nervous awareness ordain itself into a virtual possibility: a story, a new plot, an impermanent thought that might materialize into a newborn possibility? Moreover, how do isomorphic, architectural aspects of the body premise said virtuality via poetry? When the body is in pain and needs to operate in chaotic/ traumatic contexts, how and why is poetic intention summoned?

REPAIR During the Repair session, Bérénice Staiger takes us through her interest in bees and the swarm in particular. Bérénice also introduces meditative exercises for relaxation. During the Repair session Bérénice will guide us to relax through sensory exercises. For this she uses simple instructions and as an extra she takes products that bees collect in nature: honey, propolis and pollen. We will feel, smell, and taste the products. We will also go outside to experience our surroundings with our senses.

More information here: http://varia.zone/en/rr-vegetality-virtuality.html

Hope to see you, Cristina