Reading evenings ‘Between the Lines: SUPERGLUE’

In August, the CAC Reading Room invites you to a series of discussions centred on texts that have inspired and accompany the exhibition ‘Superglue, or Inventing the Friend’. Each Tuesday in August, we will discuss two excerpts from the reading list compiled by the exhibition’s curator, Valentinas Klimašauskas.

Reading texts from philosophy, anthropology, psychology, cultural theory and art criticism, we will consider how the concepts of friendship, love and our relationship with the Other are changing in the contemporary world. In the context of the exhibition, these texts invite us to reflect more deeply on different understandings of otherness and togetherness, and to discover reading as a way of being together. The open format of the meetings will create space to share not only thoughts, but also experiences.

The meetings will be moderated by Miglė Markulytė, curator of the CAC Reading Room.

We will meet every Tuesday in August, from 5:30 to 7 pm.

Schedule:

• 4 August
• 11 August
• 18 August
• 25 August

Language: Meetings will take place in Lithuanian and/or English, depending on the needs of the participants. The texts will be available in Lithuanian and English; some will be available only in English.

To take part, please register: click here

The texts to be discussed will be sent to registered participants at the email addresses they provide one week before each meeting.

The curator’s recommended publications and selected excerpts will also be available in the CAC Reading Room during its summer opening hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 11 am to 7 pm.

During the first meeting, we will discuss the first chapter of bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions, ‘Clarity: Give Love Words’, and the chapter ‘The Solitude of Existing’ from Emmanuel Levinas’ Time and the Other.