The Reading Room
The Reading Room is an ongoing collaborative project conceived in 2021 that brings together creatives and audiences to share texts and be part of a mutual, collective experience.
During each edition of the Reading Room, the gallery is converted into a reading space - a place to sit, meet, read, and be. The gallery remains normal opening hours to the public during the week with weekly activations. These events consist of exciting and fun reading/text-based activities, each one hosted by a different creative or collective.
These activations also incorporate the Cotangent Residency Programme, our short-term artist residency offered to 2 artists during the summer. By involving participants of the Cotangent Residency, the scope of the Reading Room expands beyond the gallery walls, thereby creating possibilities for new connections and dialogues across diverse locations and spaces.
Reading Room 2023
Agnes Essonti Luque, Agustina Fiorretti, Radial Radiant, Mark Shorter, Ana Vala & Lucía Retamar
Reading Room 2022
Andres Schwerer, Margherita Isola, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani and Mango & Okra (Roshni Kavate, Agnes Essoni Luque & Lizette Nin)
Reading Room Intervention in Centre d’ Arts Santa Monica 2022
Why All This Music? - Sharing Space
Tsering Frykman-Glen, Charlotte Nordgren Sewell, Mango & Okra (Agnes Essonti Luque, Roshni Kavate & Lizette Nin), Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, and Agenda Kuir (Felipe Román Osorio).
Reading Room 2021
Maira das Neves & Lucas Pretti (TRAMPOTRAMPA), Felipe Román Osorio, Maria Monegro & Charlotte Nordgren Sewell, and Beau W Beakhouse & Sadia Pineda Hameed
We are generously supported in our quest for new and exciting publications to put in the Reading Room by HOAX, LUMIN Press, Trio Editorial and windfall*.
We are also building an online collection of interesting texts that relate to the meeting groups and the Reading Room -you can access it here.