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Margaux Schwarz and Douglas Eynon muse on the psychic content of transactional relationships in their collaborative production of 'Alternative Currency'

Henry Andersen and Bryana Fritz (Slow Reading Club) take us on a journey in an evocative chapter read from 'Road Movie', their novel constituted from existing road literature, its materials handled via manual transcription, stenography, autocorrect and repetition, spitting out the degenerate fantasy of going WEST
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Adam Gallagher and Javon Bennett collaborate - reading their homage, recording in domestic space - to speak the names and experience, past and present, of people who have given their lives and bodies to their work and families, devoted to the making free of themselves and others from contexts of oppression and adversity, reflecting also on continuities between their lives and deaths

Jack Brennan hosts, 'The Quizz', recording from an old, very quiet, WW2 era bunker

Patty Zhang reads ‘Amy’s Artwork’, a short play about the relationship between a Chinese art student and her father

Daniel Genoves reads ‘Erotica for a Flying Bed and Ruined Sun’, toeing a clean line through an erotic-poetic vision, with the body staged as a plastic and comical site of experience

Emanuel Poche reads 'Kings, picture prompt' telling of a ritual devised by the speaker for freeing himself from behaviours on the paternal side of his family, followed by 'self-pity, an acrostic poem' describing a cast of characters waiting at a tram stop

Camilla Wills reads her rose-like composition, unfolding observations of time and space from within a period of mourning, grounded in an artist's catalogue of lived daily events in the city

Eleanor Ivory Weber reads around the digital frame of an article in the context of the Australian media online, which she engages as part of her ongoing writing project, 'Sub text labour'

Adrijana Gvozdenović reads from a room in Mumbai, sitting down with http://archivingartisticanxieties.me - her digital gathering space for the scattered dialogue-based approaches to the presentation of critical text-centred practise as a thinking/reading/speaking in performance

Mladen Bundalo reads 'Strings', personal travelogues tracking paths in his life and travels beginning in Bosnia Herzegovina

Eleanor Ivory Weber and camille gérenton present their Sprechgesang 'Word without return', rethinking orality for a small audience in the basement

Naomi Quashie's text performance, set to sound, uncovers a creation myth of Earth initiated through the joy existing between two female embodiments of darkness and light, as narrated by a Goddess-like being, alive to themself as a multiple incarnate digital presence

Pia Louwerens edits extracts from previously performed texts into this new address reading 'A Version / Subtracted Stability' for us, her sometimes-mentioned-by-name audience

Jennifer Brewer reads Chapter 1 from 'Elizabeth in the Woolds'