INSPIRED BY… | Reading Club
Curated by Tuçe Erel

Inspired by… is an event series, a hybrid format derived from reading group and artist talk formats. In each session, an invited artist will choose a specific text or excerpt from a book that was inspirational for the artist’s practice and/or a particular project that the artist will introduce.

The project follows up Tuçe Erel’s Posthumanism Reading Group, organized between 2018-2020. After co-reading and discussing plenty of seminal texts in two years, the club is transforming into a new discussion, presentation and reading program, an online and offline exchange platform in a non-hierarchical and non-institutional infrastructure in the fields of arts, science and technology.

The events occur either on zoom or on-site, starting in mid-March 2022.

The second event of the "Inspired by..." will be an in-person meeting outdoors. Rice Brewing Sisters Club will hack this hybrid format. Therefore they will pitch text about their work and also invite participants to join a workshop, on behalf of "Hackers, Makers, Thinkers: Collective Experiments in Social Fermenting".

The registration to the event is available on pretix.eu page. The selected text, further details, and meeting point will be shared with the registered participants via email three days before the event.

Structure of Meetings
Invited artists select the text to read collectively and discuss the artists’ selected artwork and research ( 90 min.)

Time
Reading club will start on Tue, 22 March 2022, 8 pm CET, taking place every 6 weeks (altering with the Colloquium Club).
Reading Club sessions in 2022 (Tuesdays): 22 March, 3 May, 28 June, 30 August, 11 October, 22 November, 6 December (closing event of IN PROGRESS and INSPIRED BY)

Space
Outdoor (The exact location will be shared via email)
(no livestream and recording)