Traveling, going nowhere

by THE KOKRA FAMILY

This reading list has been commissioned in conjunction with the exhibition Rossella Biscotti, new work (8 September 2019 — 5 January 2020).

The best journeys take us nowhere. They derail and change our perspectives. Fantasized destinations dissolve and are taken over by new constructions of bodies in space and time. Things get messy, altering ourselves without movement. These difficult journeys can turn into cancellations or deportations. Writing or reading about these possible displacements makes us aware of what powers are at play. These narratives of displacements should never end, their urgencies move us sitting, reading.

Isaac Asimov, Galactic Empire, Bantam, 1945-1951

Reggie Baay, Daar werd wat gruwelijks verricht: Slavernij in Nederlands-Indië, Athenaeum, Polak & van Gennep, 2015

Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Duke University Press, 2007

Octavia Butler, Lilith’s Brood, Grand Central Publishing, 2000

Saydiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, W. W Norton & Company, 2019

Rachael Kiddey, Homeless Heritage: Collaborative Social Archaeology as Therapeutic Practice, Oxford University Press, 2017

Tom McDonough, ed, The Situationists and the City: A Reader, Verso, 2010

David Macey, The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory, Penguin Books Ltd, 2002

Fred Moten, Black and Blur, Duke University Press, 2017

Barbara Oomen, Rights for Others: The Slow Home-coming of Human Rights in the Netherlands, Cambridge University Press, 2013

Georges Perec, Species of Space and other Pieces, Penguin Books Ltd, 2008

Andrei Tarkovsky, De verzegelde tijd: Beschouwingen over de filmkunst, Historische Uitgeverij Groningen, 1987

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Hogarth Press, 1927