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.
Solo & duo exhibitions
- Learning, BOEKS, Ghent, 2024
- 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
- The Blues, Slow Reading Session, United In Grief festival, Neumarkt, Zurich, 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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