Parallel Reading Reports

Dear fellow student,

I have been for a couple months gathering from friends and writing myself Parallel reading reports*, brought together as two PDFs, around the quite broad themes of (self-)education and the death of the author.

For the next set of reading reports to be published on the website of the Parallel School of Art**, I would like to ask for your help to write, annotate, sketch, draw and send me reports of things you read or saw around the theme of :

WRITING FOR/FROM CONVERSATIONS

Until now I have been thinking of Joseph Grigely’s conversation pieces, Will Holder’s cards or handouts – scripting, representing, keeping traces – and would be very curious to hear/read from your leads on this subject or your take on it !

*: PARALLEL READING REPORTS are personnal notes written along the reading of a text, image, artwork, lecture, exhibition (anything goes) in order to remember it better. They can be simply handwritten and scanned, continuous text, drawn or layouted; disect the source or give a personal interpretation. The only important thing is that they avoid showing the original material and end up being shared!

**: PARALLEL SCHOOL OF ART is a virtual and international school where people who want to self-educate themselves can share what they are doing and thinking, as well as their interests and projects. Parallel school wants to generate and spread work emulation, and to develop self-initiated projects such as publications, meetings, lectures, workshops etc.

— More details, documents and reading reports on: http://www.parallel-school.com

— Please feel free to send your proposals to: parallelschoolofart@gmail.com