If you’ve got the time – and a good memory – a Singaporean artist has a story he’d like you to remember.
Now in the fourth of 12 months of weekly performances, “A Short Story About Saturdays” runs every Saturday until September, 2014 at The Reading Room. Audience members are asked to memorize and repeat at 500-word story written in Thai or English by the artist, Hemon Chong. The performance only ends when you can retell the story, verbatim, to the instructor. To reserve one of three spots available each Saturday, email Narawan “Kyo” Pathomvat at kyo@readingroombkk.org. Slots are available on a first come first served basis.
A library of books, forum for ideas and occasional theater, The Reading Room is a nonprofit arts resource located on Silom Soi 19.
Other events this month include:
“Strawberry Sunday Book Club:” Reading Pop Culture with Artch Bunnag. In Thai. 4pm Sunday.
“Free Texts:” An array of printed flyers that function as analogue “file sharing” sites. Each flyer advertises the URL of a digital text dealing with the issues of copyright, open source culture, gift economies, alternatives to capitalism, artistic strategies of engagement, contemporary arts and culture, theory and politics. Viewers are invited to tear off tabs from the flyers, take them home, and type in the URL to download their own copy of the text — many of which have been illegally uploaded by anonymous file sharers around the world. By inviting the public to participate in this work it also implicates them as pirates in their own right, creating a problematic yet critical look at what it means to access this information illicitly. Ongoing.
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