Catherine Lalonde
Relire, relier : une lecture sèche

Tuesday, December 6, 6 – 10 pm

The poet and performer Catherine Lalonde will undertake a marathon dry read of all her published texts. With no bodily effects or dramaturgy, she will read in quick succession Jeux de brume (1991), Cassandre (2005), Corps étranger (2008), and her manuscript in progress, La Dévoration des fées (working title), in chronological order of publication date. It will take the time that it takes. There might be some interruptions for a bit of chatting, a break. There might be some stammering. On the table, sources of inspiration and notes; some wine, tea, and water. The spectators are invited to come and go as they please, to read through the booklets, or to engage in the endurance test of listening to the entire reading, which will continue, from the first page of the first book to the back cover of the – as yet unpublished – fourth. This reading is presented in the context of I’d rather something ambiguous. Mais précis à la fois.

In French

– I’d rather something ambiguous. Mais précis à la fois.

November 12 – December 16, 2016

An exhibition project by Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté with Chantal Akerman, Simon Guibord, Philippe Hamelin, K8 Hardy, Raphaël Huppé-Alvarez, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Catherine Lalonde, Isabelle Pauwels, Jason Simon, Robin Simpson, Elisabeth Subrin, Michèle Thériault, and an anonymous contribution

Realised as part of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Program in Support of Artistic Production