Image courtesy of CPR. Photo by Asya Gorovits.

This event will occur virtually via Zoom.

Free. RSVP to Remi Harris, Programs Manager, at remi@cprnyc.org.

This month we will discuss ‘The Plot of Her Undoing’ by Saidiya Hartman, (Reading pp 1-6) Commissioned by the Feminist Art Coalition (FAC), ‘Waiting to Fall by David Marriot CR: The New Centennial Review, Michigan State University Press, Volume 13, Number 3, Winter 2013, (pp. 210-217), Manifesto for Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones’s 1983 Untitled Duet at Contact at 10th and 2nd, Contact At 2nd & 10th Fred Holland & Ishmael Houston-Jones, 1983 and Abbey Lincoln’s song Down Here Below (inspired by Frank Wilderson’s film Reparations Now).

This monthly reading group series, in conjunction with the international research network, Performance Philosophy (PP), will be hosted by CPR AiR mayfield brooks and CPR’s Programs Manager, Remi Harris.

In Performance Philosophy Reading Group we read exhilarating and thought-provoking texts as a springboard into generative discussion and thought-experimentation, engaging with texts in whatever way seems most productive.