2021

07.08-02.10.2021
Nocturnal Readings

reading sessions

For STATIONS, Marien Schouten made an architectural sculpture of plywood. Two spaces, the size of an average living room, were slightly tilted and connected by a passage. In the backroom, the visitor encountered a chair, a cubboard and a bed, all made of the same plywood. Besides these objects Schouten had added a ceramic sculpture. In the frontroom the artist presented a painting by himself.

Nocturnal Reading is a development of A Reader's Bedroom (2019), a wooden space containing furniture-like objects attached to the walls and floor. Schouten’s furniture-like objects are not considered part of an interior. They are miniature translations of the architecture.

Nocturnal Reading is not only a formal architectural sculpture but also an expression of the state of insomnia and at the same time a way of countering that condition, which Schouten often suffers from himself, when he spends the night hours reading.

Marien Schouten - Nocturnal Reading (2021) photography Gert Jan van Rooij
Made possible with additional support of the Mondriaan Fonds

NOCTURNAL READINGS

During STATIONS a programme of nightly reading sessions took place in this architectural sculpture: Nocturnal Readings. To this end, Schouten invited a number of people, who play or have played an important role in his life, to read a text of their choice during a nightly hour. The texts read aloud thus manifested themselves as voices in a dream.

Nocturnal Readings took place every Wednesday and Saturday. They were without an audience but have been recorded. The recordings can be seen here and on Vimeo and Instagram.

Programme 07.08 - 02.10

07.08: Sjef Voets: passage from The Noise of Time (2016) by Julian Barnes
14.08: Roos Theuws: passage from Austerlitz (2001) by W.G. Sebald
21.08: Paul Kleijne: passage from Erinnerungsräume (1992) by Aleida Assmann
28.08: Gayathri Subramanian: The Landlady (1959) by Roald Dahl, from her home in Bangalore, India
04.09: IJsbrand Hummelen: passages from In Praise of Shadows (1933) by Junichiro Tanizaki
08.09: Maria Roosen: edit of De rijke bramenplukker (1952) by Godfried Bomans
11.09: Anami Schrijvers: passage from Causality and Chance in Modern Physics (1971) by David Bohm
15.09: Ernst van Alphen: chapter from Nightwood (1936) by Djuna Barnes
18.09: Philip van den Hurk: Todesfuge (1948) by Paul Celan
22.09: Pieter Bijwaard: passage from the Zhuangzi (3rd century BC)
25.09: Tatyana Yasievich: passage from Crime and punishment (1866) by Fjodor Dostojevski
29.09: Aloys van den Berg: passage from The Abyss (1968) by Marguerite Yourcenar
02.10: Liedeke Kruk: Ode to the air (1954) by Pablo Neruda

Gayathri Subramanian
https://vimeo.com/592968409

IJsbrand Hummelen
https://vimeo.com/596165085

Pieter Bijwaard
https://vimeo.com/610439909

Tatyana Yasievich
https://vimeo.com/613359167

Aloys van den Berg
https://vimeo.com/616341847