Reading edge

Explore the library!📚✨ Our publications are alphabetically sorted by title, and the marked shelves will guide you right to what you’re looking for. Enjoy your reading time in MDT’s foyer! 🧡

Mix and match of Reading Practice – an evening taking place beyond the traditional stage. This Thursday 20/11, 18:00-21:00 at MDT. Through readings, repetitions, displacements, and embodiment, the evening investigates how text can perform and how the body can read. Here, process, hesitation, possibility, and gaps are allowed to show themselves. The space is activated as a field where language and bodies can linger, get stuck, drift apart, and come together again. Curated by @ceesayceesayceesay (image 1, image 3). Performed by @ceesayceesayceesay , @liza_tegel_real (image 2) and @michael.s.bekele (image 4). A collaboration between @readingedge_ and MDT. 🔖 Pay what you can for your tickets on our website!

In Solidarity: Collaborative Fundraiser for Palestine 🇵🇸 In connection with #InternationalDayofSolidarityWithThePalestinianPeople, on November 29th, @cinemaqueeriff , @konsthallc , Kafé Mix/ @hojdenstudios , @mdtsthlm , @mint.abf and @readingedge_ get together to keep echoing calls to end the undergoing genocide in Palestine. Through different fundraising gatherings, we unite the cultural sector and keep affirming the Palestinian people's right to liberation, dignity, justice and peace. All proceeds raised go to @palestinagrupperna *******SCHEDULE******* *******AT MDT - 29/11 Ticketed entrance (pay what you can). 18:00-19:30 Queer Nights in Palestine - screening of short film package curated by @cinemaqueeriff 19:30-20:30 Post-screening poetry workshop with nadiamaghder. 19:30-20:20 A Grief Ritual from the GEN Grief Toolkit by Camille Sapara Barton in partnership with the Global Environments Network – facilitated by Mmabatho Thobejane / @pono.ya.moya 20:30-22:00 Dabke Dance for Resistance: workshop with @saragebran + book presentation of “The Forests’ Imaginary Trial”, by Reading Edge. Alll evening: Prints fundraiser of "department of Unruly histories" by @konsthallc *******AT MINT/ONLINE - 27-30/11 Support Palestine by purchasing art! Check the works for sale at @mint_for_solidarity or in person at @mint.abf on November 27-30. Opening hours: Wed–Fri 13–17, Sat 12–18. Featuring: Rosa Aiello, Meriç Algün, Kasra Alikhani, Theodor Ander, Josefina Anjou, Astrid Braide Eriksson, coyote, Andjeas Ejiksson, Goldin+Senneby, Johanna Gustavsson Fürst, Tarik Kiswanson, Karl Holmqvist, Marie Karlberg, Liv Melin, Luzie Meyer, Olivia Plender, Iris Smeds & Lisa Tan *******AT HÖJDEN STUDIOS - 29/11 Bar sales donation. During the Kafé Mix at @hojdenstudios on the date, all bar sales proceeds will go to @palestinagrupperna *******AT KONSTHALL C Prints fundraiser @konsthallc . Sale of special edition prints from the "department of Unruly histories" archive -a project initiated by artist Meera Shakti Osborne @mso_4rt with collective sonic and material archive built on post-colonial migration stories in London. 🔗 More info on MDT's website: www.mdtsthlm.se

Some new publications in the library 📖🧡 📚𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝑰𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 (2024) by @saragebran 🌱 📚𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒃𝒐𝒙 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 (2019) by @sitesweden and @milvusart 💫 📚𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 - 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆? (2023) by @errant.press 💡 📚𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑩𝒐𝒙 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝟒 (2020) by @blackboxteater 🌀 Welcome to read or browse thorough on site in @mdtsthlm foyer 💜

𝒊 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑫𝑶𝑪-𝑼-𝑴𝑬𝑵𝑻 𝒓𝒆-𝒑𝒓𝒆-𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒕 ~ new publication in the library 📚💫 This zine captures part of the process behind UNDER, a work by Alica Tserkovnaja recently shown at @stoffholm . Tips! Gain deeper insight into UNDER by reading Anna Nygren’s newly written text on the processes behind it, featured in @bastard.blog (link in bio). Thank you @jackieocandy for bringing this zine to the library. 📖

This weekend Reading Edge:s mobile library visits SITE/Specific Festival 🧡 In @sitesweden foyer you will find a selection of publications by artist performing at the festival, as well as anthologies that dwell into artistic processes from different angles. Free entrance, welcome!

🧡 Reading Edge’s mobile library 🧡 Reading Edge comprises a permanent reference library as well as a mobile library. The mobile library consists of four units that can shift in form and location. It is designed to display publications in unexpected ways and invite visitors to read, browse or engage with publications in various ways. Additionally, the mobile library can activate settings for reading, writing, performing, practicing or gathering around books and publishing practices. The mobile library can activate dance studious, foyers, gallery spaces, bookshops, outdoor environments, or other locations. ➡️Slide to see some possible formations! Design by @cassandralorca and Martin Moderato 🙏🏼

The lastest edition of Maska is now in the library 💜 This issue explores methodological, strategic and tactical approaches from feminist and queer perspectives to address issues such as inclusivity and justice and propose ways for doing things differently. Thank you @piabrezavscek for bringing it! 💡You will find Maska on shelf “M” in @mdtsthlm foyer. Open 1h before and after performances (or on appointment).

Q&A with Oda Brekke about porous dances, publishing and traces 💜 🔗Visit link in bio to read it! And don’t miss the performance and publication release ’𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵’ at MDT in collaboration with Reading edge’s mobile library 22 & 24 March.

Did you know that Reading Edge also accepts digital publications to its archive? The digital publications are represented on the shelves through acrylic cards, where you can find information on how to access them. In this picture, you see the digital publication ‘The Gaza Monologues’ (2010-) by Ashtar Theatre. Scan the QR code to directly arrive at their website where the monologues are published. 💫

Welcome to the performance ’𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵’ including a publication release of ’𝘐𝘵 𝘈𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘴: 𝘖𝘯 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘖𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵’ by Oda Brekke in collaboration with Reading Edge and its mobile library. 🤍 🗓️ March 22 & 24 ⏱️20.00-23.00 & 15.00-18.00 📍Studio 1 & 2 @mdtsthlm 🔹Tickets: pay what you can 75-500 SEK Across three hours, ’𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵’ opens up a space within and between the two studios on the ground floor of MDT. The audience is invited to spend time with dance and texts, come and go, read, and eat soup. Reading Edge’s mobile library will be part of the installation and hold publications and other materials that carry memories from a process fragmented between different times and places. The publication ’𝘐𝘵 𝘈𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘴: 𝘖𝘯 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘖𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵’ includes a thought-provoking essay that unfolds Oda Brekke’s inquiry into dance and its production of traces. Don’t miss this out🧡

Happy birthday Reading edge! 🥳 One year ago Reading Edge’s permanent and mobile library was inaugurated in MDT:s foyer. 💜 Here are some moments of encounters, readings, performances and publications in various formats from the last year!