Poethical Readings mit Valentina Desideri und Denise Ferreira da Silva

What if, instead of providing a resolution, a direct answer, or a definite interpretation, a reading helped us to navigate the complexity of existence – attending to both its actual and virtual moments – its different positions, relationships and layers that also constitute us? 

Drawing from each other’s practices Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva come together for experimental readings. They experiment with ‘reading tools’ inspired by well-known and newly-designed practices – such as the Tarots, Political Therapy, Palmistry, Fake Therapy as well as Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy. Belonging to the kind of knowing Walter Benjamin calls intuitive faculty, these reading tools assemble images. Reading as imaging, in their practice, consists in an assembling that exposes and navigates the complex context constituting the situation, event, or problem that concerns a person or collective at a given moment and place. As such, it aims at expanding the horizon of interpretation, that is, to open up possibilities and unsettle realities.

Within the context of The School of Self Defense, Poethical Readings understands self-defense as a practice of expanding perception and opening up new possibilities for action beyond fixed certainties.