On 20 July at 16:00, we invite everybody to SODAS 2123 residency programme participant Johanna Zanon’s reading group RUDE READERS.

A table, chairs, food, some texts: such is the premise of this gathering. Readers are invited to join, eat, read as a chorus of dissonant voices, interrupt each other and chat with their mouths full.

We will read and comment together on two texts suggested by SODAS 2123’s current residents, Anna Mikkola and Johanna Zanon:
– “Weird” by Jonathon Turnbull, Living Lexicon, Environmental Humanities, 2021.
– Excerpts from Perceptions at the End of the World (or How Not to Play Video Games), by Joanna Zylinska, Pittsburgh and New York: Flugschriften, 2020.

The reading group is open to everybody and will be in English; it is part of the event OPEN SODAS: FOOD and you are welcome to bring food to the table. It will take place in the SODAS 2123 residency kitchen on the 3 rd floor of the old building, above the Atletika gallery.

More about the resident:
Johanna Zanon (b. 1988, FR) is an independent curator and art mediator who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. With a background as a researcher in fashion studies, her curatorial interests include labour, production, capitalism, environmental humanities, speculative and interactive fiction, theory at the margins and contemporary crafts. She has initiated and curated projects for a range of institutions.

Recently, she participated in the curatorial residency ‘The Community of Writers’ (2022–2023), on curatorial writing about contemporary textile art, initiated by Anne Szefer- Carlsen at the University of Bergen (KMD) and the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland. Zanon has published curatorial essays, reviews, interviews and peer-reviewed articles, as well as edited both exhibition catalogues and special issues.

She also works as a programme curator at Norske Kunsthåndverkere, where she is in charge of Temautstillingen, among other projects. She is a member of the Norwegian Association of Curators (Norsk Kuratorforening) and the Norwegian Association of Art Historians (Kunsthistorisk Forening). She holds a PhD in history from the University of Oslo, an MPhil in curatorial studies from École Nationale des Chartes in Paris, and an MA in art history from École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.

Johanna Zanon’s residency is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.

The activities of SODAS 2123 are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.