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Important Projects

July 29 - July 29, 2013

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5432 Boyd Avenue Oakland, CA 94618
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The Reading Score Image Credit: Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural, trams. Robert D. Richardson and Anne E. O’Bryne (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000), 3.
Important Projects is extremely excited to present a performance by Millie Kapp. Join us Monday, July 29, 2013 for a new rendition of “The Reading Score”. The event will begin at 7pm and continue through 10pm. “The Reading Score” invites ten readers to enact a dance of sitting, laying, and standing as prompted by their encounter with the word “being” in the essay Being Singular Plural by Jean-Luc Nancy. The dancers/readers’ shifting postures create a choreography of relationality and withness—two ideas explored in Nancy’s essay as central to what he calls our “being-in-common.” The changing positions, and the entirely personal pace at which they occur, literalizes the readers’ plurality, and enacts their common multiplicity. The readers’ shifting postures also function an analog signal of the invisible labor of reading and comprehension. The score will take as long as the readers/dancers need to complete Being Singular Plural in the hopes of exposing the singular labor of each reader in their encounter with “being.” Millie Kapp is a New York–based performance artist and recent graduate from the Masters program in Performance Studies at NYU. She received her BA in 2010 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she completed a degree in Visual and Critical Studies. Kapp has presented performances around the US in Oakland, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York. Her practice includes programing, curating and writing about performance art. This is the second project she has presented at Important Projects. Important Projects 5432 Boyd Avenue Oakland, CA 94618