Perdu's fourth Radical Read-In Dear, will take place online.
Dear, focuses our collective reading time towards the written letter, and holds a special contribution by scholar and artist Sebastian De Line.

The practice of writing letters, by its extended reach, provides a way to document, share and cross distance. In this trying time, where many of us remain self-confined and separated from others, Perdu would like to make space for this delicate form of staying in touch.

We invite you take hold of your letters of choice and join us for an online reading experience. Whether it's “The Letters of Sylvia Plath”, Artaud's “1937 Apocalypse - Letters from Ireland” or correspondence from your personal archive, we propose a moment for us to read together, while apart.

Lifting its concept from the feminist, gender queer artist collective LTTR, the radical read-in proposes reading as an activist undertaking, bringing together a fleeting community of people through shared individual experience.

For this occasion we have invited artist and scholar Sebastian De Line who will open the read-in with a reading of his/their work "Dear Louise" which takes the form of a letter addressed to Louise Bourgeois. Afterwards we'll read together in silence for about an hour and a half followed by a moment for comments, questions and/or to share extracts of what we've read.

The read-in will be hosted on zoom. The room will be opened at 19:45 CEST and we start at 20:00 CEST. A link to zoom will be posted on the event page on the day itself.

Sebastian De Line is an artist, scholar and lecturer based on Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory in Ka’tarohkwi (Kingston, Canada). He/they are a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University and curatorial resident for the Toronto Biennial of Art. Publications include Open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, and bauhaus imaginista journal.