SIGHTINGS 37
Hotel Atlas: Collected Stories and Fragments
Kim Kielhofner, Hotel Atlas: Collected Stories and Fragments, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
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HOTEL ATLAS: COLLECTED STORIES AND FRAGMENTS

LIVE READING PERFORMANCE ORGANIZED BY ARTIST KIM KIELHOFNER

PARTICIPANTS: Christina Achkar, Jessica Benavidez, Mahélie Caschetto-L, Mischa Dempsey, Octavie Doherty-Haigh, Clara Guequierre, Bridget Huh, Kim Kielhofner, Jade Palmer, Cassandra Sarah Pegg, Sophie Richardson, Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez and Toby Walma

TEXTS: Ingeborg Bachmann, Maurice Blanchot, Anne Carson, Renee Gladman, Hanne Loreck, Toby MacLennan, Marianne Moore, Yukiko Motoya, Lorine Niedecker, Anna Oppermann, Katrina Palmer, Albertine Sarrazin et Lisa Robertson

TUESDAY APRIL 4, 2023

12:00 to 4:00 PM
Free, Hall Building, ground floor, next to the cube (1455, de Maisonneuve Boul. West)

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Join artist Kim Kielhofner and 12 students for a live reading performance of selected essays, poetry collections, short story collections, and novels in English, French and German. The event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition project SIGHTINGS 37 Hotel Atlas: Collected Stories and Fragments, currently on view in the Hall Building (ground floor) and organized by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.

PROGRAM

12:00 – 12:20 pm
“Fitting Room” by Yukiko Motoya, read by Jessica Benavidez (in English)
12:20 – 12:40 pm
“Was ist ein Together?” by Anna Oppermann, read by Mischa Dempse (in German)
12:40 – 13:00 pm
Poems by Marianne Moore and Ingeborg Bachmann, read by Cassandra Sarah Pegg (in English)
1:00 – 1:20 pm
Poems by Lorine Niedecker and Ingeborg Bachmann, read by Clara Guequierre (in English and German)
1:20 – 1:40 pm
Debbie by Lisa Robertson, read by Bridget Huh (in English)
1:40 – 2:00 pm
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson, read by Jade Palmer (in English)
2:00 – 2:20 pm
1 Walked Out of 2 and Forgot It by Toby MacLennan, read by Octavie Doherty-Haigh (in English)
2:20 – 2:40 pm
Event Factory by Renee Gladman, read by Mahélie Caschetto-L (in English)
2:40 – 3:00 pm
The Dark Object by Katrina Palmer, read by Toby Walma (in English)
3:00 – 3:20 pm
Thomas the Obscure by Maurice Blanchot, read by Dustin Ariel Seguro-Suarez (in French)
3:20 – 3:40 pm
Astragale by Albertine Sarrazin, read by Sophie Richardson (in French)
3:40 – 4:00 pm
“Facing the Others” by Hanne Loreck, read by Christina Achkar (in English)

SIGHTINGS 37

This public program is part of SIGHTINGS 37, presented from January 23 to May 14, 2023 on the ground floor of the Hall Building of Concordia University: 1455, blvd. De Maisonneuve West, accessible weekdays and weekends from 7 am to 11