Slow Reading Club

Works

Installation view
*Learning*, Boeks, Ghent, 2024

Sightlines (black on yellow)
Sightlines (black on white)
2024
CNC engraved plastic, laminate
Dimensions variable

Plausible Remainder
2024
Diptych, letraset on woven satin ribbons, push pins
Each piece: 40 × 51 cm

Call for Participation (Searchlight)
2024
UV print on brushed aluminum
52.5 × 73.5 cm

*Dedication (Conspiracy Knot)*
2022
Recto: Gesso, letraset and photo prints on woven satin ribbons, push pins
Verso: UV print on brushed aluminum, adhesive felt circles
100 × 58.5 cm

*Dedication (Become Plain Glass)*
2022
Recto: Letraset on woven satin ribbons, gifted t-shirt
75 × 47.5 cm

*Dedication (Six Colour Rainbow)*
2022
Recto: Gesso and letraset on woven satin ribbons, found diapositives, LED light box, pine
Verso: UV print on brushed aluminum
88 × 56 cm

*Dedication (“Scoundrel, do you bite me again?”)*
2022
Recto: Letraset on woven satin ribbons, plywood
94 × 71 cm

*Dedication (Xtreme Terror Hard Vibration)*
2022
Recto: Letraset and photo prints on woven satin ribbons, collage and gesso on MDF
Verso: UV print on brushed aluminum
92 × 57 cm

*Dedication (Si muero)*
2022
Recto: Gesso, letraset and risograph prints on woven satin ribbons, push pins
Verso: UV print on brushed aluminum
67 × 55 cm

SF
2022
Scanned copy of the screenplay for “Aliens” (dir: James Cameron, 1986), tape, laser print on A4 paper, wooden shelf
32 × 21 × 159 cm (detail view)

Installation view
*13 dedications*
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2022

Installation view
Soft Cover Soft Cover
With Gregory Polony and Eleanor Ivory Weber
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020

*Dog Tag Fanzine Saddle Stitch*
2020
Satin ribbons, photo prints, keychains, thread
144 x 125 cm

*Dog Tag Fanzine Saddle Stitch* (detail)

*Lap Dog Bone Marrow Jet Lag*
2018
Transfer lettering on woven satin ribbons, concrete, heat transfer on fabric, clasps
180 x 21 cm

*TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT (book)*
2020
15 long sleeve t-shirts, fabric pen on canvas, heat foils, clothing rack

*Jammer Poems*
2020
Plotter print on plastic sleeves, bookbinding thread, dyed glue
Edition of 5
22 × 17 cm

*AAGGINR*
2017
Performance
Beurschouwburg, Brussels

*Horizon Sucker*
2019
Installation view
MAK Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2019

*Horizon Sucker*
2019
Two channel video, audio, satin ribbons, stitching, steel frame
Installation view
MAK Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2019

Statement

Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen in late 2016. The group deals in constructed situations for collective reading. SRC looks at, probes, and interrupts ‘readership’ as a way to stimulate the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader. SRC does not aim at deconstruction or even comprehension of the texts in hands, but at the production of a kind of excess: to temporarily suspend criticality for intimacy and to negotiate agencies with the text.

Upcoming

Learning, BOEKS, Ghent, 2024 (solo)
The Blues, Slow Reading Session, United In Grief festival, Neumarkt, Zurich, 20 Jan 2024

Solo & duo exhibitions

13 dedications, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2022
Soft Cover Soft Cover, with Gregory Polony and Eleanor Ivory Weber, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020
Whose Organs Were Those of a Leopard, Louise Dany, Oslo, 2018

Selected group exhibitions

Matchmaker, hosted by Damien & The Love Guru for Various Others, Loggia, Munich, 2021
Rosa Rosa Rosae, Maison Pelgrims, Brussels, 2021
Time Capsule 2045, Palais des Beaux-Arts De Paris, 2021
Ticker Tape, NICC, Antwerp and Brussels, 2021
Inexisistant Books, Printroom, Rotterdam, 2020
Shelter or Playground, MAK Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2019
The Tyranny of Distance, ESBA TALM, Angers/ Tin Flats, Los Angeles, 2018

Performances

Practicable 5, Slow Reading Session, Festival Sâlmon, Hangar, Barcelona, 2023
Slow Reading Adèle Rosenfeld, Slow Reading Session, Kemmler Foundation, Berlin, 2023
Special Effects, Slow Reading Session, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 2022
Remote Control, Slow Reading Session, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2022
headless, Slow Reading Session,WIELS, Brussels, 2022
dearest, Slow Reading Session, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2022
Public Fountains, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2021
Road Movie, Reading, Durations, Brussels, 2021
Future Perfect Continuous Tense, Cabaret Voltaire & Theater Neumarkt, Zurich (online), 2021
The Large Bathers, Slow Reading Session, KAAP, Ostend. In the context of Dansand, 2021
YES, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (online), 2020
As for the bed straightened by visible hands only it is huge, Slow Reading Session, Kunstcentrum Vooruit, Ghent, 2020
Signatures, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2019
Titanic Titanic Titanic, Slow Reading Session, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, 2019
Readers Digress, Slow Reading Session, Showroom Mama, Rotterdam, 2019
I GOTTA / wig / gle for this, Slow Reading Session, Bergen Kunsthall, 2019
Body Overflowing with Milk was Stolen Like a Jar, Slow Reading Session, MAK Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2019
Signatures, Zentrum Für Kunst Und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, 2019
Limbswoonundergraft, Slow Reading Session, Ltd Academy, Zurich, 2018
Whose Organs Were Those of a Leopard, Slow Reading Session, Louise Dany, Oslo, 2018
(Intimacy), Slow Reading Session, La Loge, Brussels, 2017
Before The Codes, Slow Reading Session, Palais De La Dynastie, Brussels. In the context of Kunstenfestivaldesarts, 2017

Residencies

Jester, Genk, 2023–2024
Fondation CAB, Brussels, 2021
Art by Translation, Angers/Los Angeles, 2018–2019

Related activities

Workshop, ENSAPC Cergy, Paris, 2023
Public lecture, HISK – A Different Path series, Brussels, 2023
Workshop, ZHDK, Zurich 2022
Workshop, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, 2022
Workshop, KASK, Ghent, 2022
Public lecture, KASKLezingen, Ghent, 2022
Workshop, ENSAPC, Paris, 2022
Workshop, ZHDK, Zurich 2021
Workshop, ETH, Zurich, 2021
Workshop, ENSAPC Cergy, Paris, 2021

Publications

The Age of Oil (bootleg), self published booklet. Text by Duncan Smith, edition of 50, 2022
Fan Fiction, self Published booklet, texts by Joyelle McSweeney and Bill Dietz, edition of 150, 2021
Body Horror, booklet, texts by Virgilio Piñera, Brooke Palmieri and Slow Reading Club, Lafayette Anticipations, edition of 1000, 2020
YES, zipfile on thumb drive, unlimited edition, 2020
Folding Shirt, longsleeve T-shirt in collaboration with ADDLABEL, edition of 20, 2019

Published work

Warm Buttons, magazine contribution, Le Chauffage, issue 2, 2021

Press

Opinion ‘Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back’, New York Times, 2023
Reading Rämistrasse #101: AJ on Slow Reading Club @ Cabaret Voltaire, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2022
13 dedications, Mousse Magazine, 2022
Matchmaker, Art Viewer, 2021
Soft Cover Soft Cover, Art Viewer, 2020
‘Unzip’, Pia Louwerens, Tubelight Magazine, 2020
‘Protocoles De Traductions’, Sebastien Pluot, L’Art Meme Magazine, 2019
‘De Theorietekst Als Protagonist’, Lietje Bauwens, Etcetra Magazine, 2017

Installation view, Learning, Boeks, Ghent, 2024

Sightlines (black on yellow), Sightlines (black on white), 2024, CNC engraved plastic, laminate, Dimensions variable

Plausible Remainder, 2024, Diptych, letraset on woven satin ribbons, push pins, Each piece: 40 × 51 cm

Call for Participation (Searchlight), 2024, UV print on brushed aluminum, 52.5 × 73.5 cm

Dedication (Conspiracy Knot), 2022, Recto: Gesso, letraset and photo prints on woven satin ribbons, push pins, Verso: UV print on brushed aluminum, adhesive felt circles, 100 × 58.5 cm

Dedication (Become Plain Glass), 2022, Recto: Letraset on woven satin ribbons, gifted t-shirt, 75 × 47.5 cm

Dedication (Six Colour Rainbow), 2022, Recto: Gesso and letraset on woven satin ribbons, found diapositives, LED light box, pine, Verso: UV print on brushed aluminum, 88 × 56 cm

Dedication (“Scoundrel, do you bite me again?”), 2022, Recto: Letraset on woven satin ribbons, plywood, 94 × 71 cm

Dedication (Xtreme Terror Hard Vibration), 2022, Recto: Letraset and photo prints on woven satin ribbons, collage and gesso on MDF, Verso: UV print on brushed aluminum, 92 × 57 cm

Dedication (Si muero), 2022, Recto: Gesso, letraset and risograph prints on woven satin ribbons, push pins, Verso: UV print on brushed aluminum, 67 × 55 cm

SF, 2022, Scanned copy of the screenplay for “Aliens” (dir: James Cameron, 1986), tape, laser print on A4 paper, wooden shelf, 32 × 21 × 159 cm (detail view)

Installation view, 13 dedications, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2022

Installation view, Soft Cover Soft Cover, With Gregory Polony and Eleanor Ivory Weber, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2020

Dog Tag Fanzine Saddle Stitch, 2020, Satin ribbons, photo prints, keychains, thread, 144 x 125 cm

Dog Tag Fanzine Saddle Stitch (detail)

Lap Dog Bone Marrow Jet Lag, 2018, Transfer lettering on woven satin ribbons, concrete, heat transfer on fabric, clasps, 180 x 21 cm

Lap Dog Bone Marrow Jet Lag (detail)

TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT (book), 2020, 15 long sleeve t-shirts, fabric pen on canvas, heat foils, clothing rack

Jammer Poems, 2020, Plotter print on plastic sleeves, bookbinding thread, dyed glue, Edition of 5, 22 × 17 cm

Jammer Poems (detail)

AAGGINR, 2017, Performance, Beurschouwburg, Brussels

Horizon Sucker, 2019, Installation view, MAK Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2019

Horizon Sucker, 2019, Two channel video, audio, satin ribbons, stitching, steel frame, Installation view, MAK Schindler House, Los Angeles, 2019