25/06/2019
Catherine McCormack Art Historian and Writer
Radical Reading Assembly runs monthly reading groups exploring debates around critical art practice around Manchester.
LCAC in collaboration with artist Helen Knowles is pleased to be launching a reading group which will run on the first Wednesday and Thursday of every month across two venues
25/06/2019
Catherine McCormack Art Historian and Writer
21/10/2017
We are delighted to announce a new season of Radical Reading Assembly, running from November to May at the Arcadia Library & Leisure Centre. Radical Reading Assembly is a forum for new perspectives on art and politics organised by Levenshulme Contemporary Art Centre. We aim to move theory out of academia into public spaces and welcome anyone interested. You can read the book, check links and videos via LCAC.org.uk, or just turn up and join in. All sessions are on the first Wednesday of the month between 6:45-7:30 pm.
07/03/2017
THIS SUNDAY @ WHITWORTH 3-5pm we are reading Vertical, The City from Satellites to Bunkers by Stephen Graham. A pdf should be ready asap. We will be reading the first four chapters.
Unfortunately we aren't running tonight's session at the Arcadia Levenshulme (01/03/17). We are all either ill or have other commitments. Apologies to any of you planning to attend. We'll be up and running again on the 5th April and will post event details here.
Whitworth group meeting Next thursday 9th February at 7.30pm ....reading The Mark of Sacred prologue and first chapter.
Hi all,
Our next reading group is next Wednesday 7th December at the New Arcadia Levenshulme at 18:45
We will be discussing a a book called The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
To try and keep it manageable we will be looking the first two chapters.
1. Politics Surrounded
2. The University and the Undercommons
It has been published a an open access book so you can freely read it here.
http://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf
Looking forward to seeing some of you then.
Best wishes
LCAC
02/11/2016
Tonight in Levenshulme we did a close reading of Nicolas Bourriaud's new book The Exform in a gym and someone decided to do a headstand.
All of you who would like a copy of keller Esterling's The Action is Form PM me!
30/10/2016
Come to the Radical Reading Group on thursday - at The Whitworth Art Gallery in manchester
THE ACTION IS THE FORMVICTOR HUGO’S TED TALK Space is a technology. Buildings and the cities they inhabit have become infrastructural – mobile, monetised networks. For the world’s power players, infrastructure space is a secret weapon, and the rest of us are only just beginning to realise
27/10/2016
Join us @ The Whitworth
Once every month
27/10/2016
Join us @ The New Arcadia
Once every month
| 9am - 9pm |