YGRG 169
YGRG169 reads Bloodchild by Octavia Butler on Montez Press Radio.
In collaboration with MOSTYN (Wales, UK), Montez Press Radio launches a series of interviews, conversations, readings and sound by artists, writers, publishers, musicians and activists. In light of the current challenges faced across the globe and within the art sector, this series seeks to forge a sense of continued dialogue and community. The broadcasts are aired on the last Sunday of each month from May to August 2020 (31 May, 28 June, 26 July, 30 August) between 4-8pm BST.
Participants include, amongst others to be announced soon: A.M.Bang, Christiane Blattmann, Jacqueline de Jong, Jack Burton, Caribic Residency, Juliette Desorgues, Olivia Erlanger, Endangered Languages Project, Attilia Fattori Franchini, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Cinzia Mutigli, New Latin Wave, Athena Papadopoulos, Hannah Regel, Erica Scourti, Zoë Skoulding, Joe Walsh, Yellow Back Books (Becca Thomas, Louise Hobson, Freya Dooley & Clare Charles).
YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP is a project by artist duo Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, which came into existence as an actual, weekly reading group in their Berlin flat in 2013. Since then, under this extended serial performative project, the artists have organized more than 160 reading groups and performances at a sustained pace and at a large variety of locations. Young Girl Reading Group started from a collective reading of texts which explore broadly the intersections between gender and technology.
YGRG has not so much to do with being young or being a girl. It began with the reading of Tiqqun’s 1999 publication “Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl”. This text proposes the concept of the Young-Girl, a category identified as neither age nor gender-specific, but rather as a product of consumer society and the epitome of its model citizen. Since, YGRG is tending towards the texts that expose how our identities are often fabricated without us knowing — and how we could also understand, subvert and reclaim them.
The YGRG ARCHIVE is facilitated by ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics, Copenhagen as a fragmented but ever growing attempt at a community that will share texts engaged with feminisms and its weavings into the queer and minority positions, decolonialism and the more-than-human.