A Great LOUDREADING is in the Making

A Great LOUDREADING is in the Making.
But No One has Noticed.
by Post-Novis with WAI Think Tank

On the call of ‘WORLDMAKERSUNITE!’, a traveling group of performers gathers in sessions all around the world to produce and disseminate emancipatory propaganda. Under the title Post-Novis (named after a combination of post-colonial and the collectivist group Unovis) the collective continues the banned practice originated in tobacco factories of the Caribbean of loudreading anti-capitalist, feminist, utopian, and anti-colonialist literature. Loudreading is simple. Workers who didn’t have any means of formal education, would choose one of their own to loudread during the entire workday. The practice of reading aloud classics and the news was transformed by loudreaders like Puerto Rican anarcho-syndicalist, feminist, and utopian author Luisa Capetillo who read about the emancipation of workers, women, land, and love, and helped forge an anti-capitalist imagination built on networks of solidarity.

In the centenary memorial of Capetillo, as anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, transfeminist, and emancipatory struggles consolidate at a planetary scale, the practice of Loudreading becomes ever more imminent.

A Great LOUDREADING is in the Making, But No One has Noticed borrows the title of Robert Musil’s last, unfinished chapter, to loudread worldmaking sessions in the heart of Vienna.

A Great LOUDREADING is in the making. But No One Has Noticed turns MAGAZIN into:

a tribune for loudreading post-colonial imaginaries

a stage for performing post-colonial Plays

a workshop for the production of post-colonial propaganda

an archipelago of broken effigies and defaced monuments

a living garden of historicized, fetishized, objectified, displaced, commodified botanical species

a collage of tropical opacity and avant-garde icons

Opening 17.06.2022 7 pm
Exhibition 18.06. - 30.07.2022

Panel Discussion 21.06.2022 7 pm
with WAI Think Tank and guests.