Projects

Text Short Sentences(1932) by Gertrude Stein, sound, video, printed publication.

OSMO/ZA
Eighth floor
Slovenska 54 - Ljubljana

Opening:
17.9.2021 from 19:00 – 20:45

Exhibition:
18.9.2021 – 30.9.2021, 15:00 – 19:00, closed on Sundays.

The installation Reading Short Sentences by Gertrude Stein is an interpretation of the written play Short Sentences (1932) by Gertrude Stein. The play consists of 591 mostly unrelated short sentences. Thirtytwo are assigned to a chorus, and the rest are spoken – each by a different character.

Sambolec approaches the written play by allocating each sentence to a unique reader who he records. He calls this practice ‘distributed reading’. In addition to sound recordings, there is a video of the sentences being spoken by the chorus, a sound recording of the names of all characters read out by a single voice, and a printed publication of Stein’s play as a series of postcards.

Reading Short Sentences by Gertrude Stein is informed by contemporary networked urban reality in providing a distributed and mediated reading of Stein’s play. The project accentuates the text as a pre-echo of contemporary lived reality by sonically embodying the fragmented and dispersed nature of (overheard) voices. It evokes strangers passing by, constant mobility, decentralization, isolation in a crowd, discontinuity and also the continuity of distraction, and the banal. The work connects Stein’s play and the contemporary conditions it so precisely captures – a context that was not entirely there yet when it was written, but which is intensely present in everyday life now, be it on a busy urban street, in an airport, or in a waiting room, or zipping through TV channels, browsing online, or scanning radio frequencies.

The inaugural presentation consists of partly read Stein’s text.

Reading Short Sentences by Gertrude Stein is a part of artistic research project Reading Reading.

Readers:
Names: Sher Doruff

Characters in order of appearance:
Zala Česnik, Karmen Keržar, Katja Gabrijelčič, Špela Škulj, Hotimir Knific, Gal Škrjanec Skaberne, Kai Ottenheim, Taja Rajterič, Andreja Rauch Podzavirnik, Jaka Šimenc, Omar Ismaila, Nina Smerkol, Špela Trošt, Leon Curk, Luka Zagoričnik, Domen Pal, Tomo Per, Primoż Čučnik, Enej Grom, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Olja Simčič Jerele, Alejandro Ramirez, Maxim Tyminko, Martijn Tellinga, Sonja Vulpes, Tomaž Grom, Laurie Cuitmans, Maja Šučur, Koen Nutters, Yannis Kyriakides, Aria Bragalini, Katarina Schwarzbartl, Becket MWN, Ana Pepelink, Arnisa Zeqo, Mirko Lazović, Bennett Hogg, Boris Baltschun, Irena Tomažin, Doug Barrett, Lore Gablier, Gabriel Paiuk, Agata Stoinska, Mario Assef, Andrea Knezović, Bojan Fajfrić, Maia Elisabeth Sørensen, Milena Bonilla, Alena Alexandrova, Vincent Verhoef, Jonas Kocher, Anne LaBerge, Huib Haye van der Werf, Klaas van Gorkum, Rune Peitersen, Edwin Zwakman, Elena Biserna, Nadim Abbas, Riccardo Massari Spiritini, Barbara Lüneburg, Marko Ciciliani, Matteo Casarin, Mika Cimolini, Natalia Domingez Rangel, Nathan Michelle, Sylbee Kim, Tjaša Podgornik, Hannah Cheney, Guy Koeningsteen, Heman Chong, Rumiko Hagiwara, John Grzinić, Ana Nikitović, Uroš Veber, Stefan Thut, Marlies van Hak, Nicolas Pelzer, Raviv Ganchrow, Panayotis Leftheris, Doris Prlić, Anže Sekelj, Dario Nožič Serini - Dacho, Robert Pravda, Mint Park, Taku Mizutta Lipitt - DJ Sniff, Sander Breure, Iratxe Jaio, Anna Orlikowska, Brandon LaBelle, Lucas Norer, Sascha Pohle, Tina Dolinšek, Christina Li, Maria Lalou, Xander Kaskens, Jessye Luk, David Drum, Magdalen Wong, Matej Tunja, Anik Fournier, Luka Lah, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Megan Hoetger, Daniil Pilchen, Janez Janša, Lovrenc Košenina, Keren Levi, Mitja Cerkvenik, Dante Boon, Vesna Madzoski, Maggie Kane, Vivian Ziherl, Stefanie Wuschitz, Katja Goljat, Adrian Reid Wong, Lan Štokelj Wu, Bojan Jablanovec, Kristina Benjocki, Nicolas Field, Evin Hadžialjević, Vladimir Vidmar, Joel Galvez, Bernhard Rasinger , Rune Søchting, Andraž Polič, Tomo Savić Gecan, Janine Armin, Moosje Moti Goosen, Marcela Okretič, Tony Guarino, Jaka Štoka, Tilen Lebar, Andrés garcia Vidal, Jure Lavrin, Tilen Sepič, Michelle Son, Domen Ožbot, Tom Bailey, Natasha Papandopoulou, Loup Abramovici, Clare Butcher, Tamás Tuza, Manca Dorer, Mattia Cason, Luke Dunne, Uroš Kaurin.

Produced by:

Sploh Institute and Projekt Atol Institute, Ljubljana Slovenia

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana, Mondriaan Fund – NL.