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The Living Reading Room is a durational installation and performance environment in which reading becomes a shared, musical, and embodied act. Over the course of three days, the room comes to life as a collective space for listening and reading.

Visitors and participants are invited to sit, read, and linger, while also moving through the room, responding to the textual atmosphere. The space hums with quiet concentration and subtle activity. Words on a page become rhythm, gesture, and sound. Here, audience and performer merge: The reader becomes part of the performance, and the performer becomes a listener.

How can we share time, attention, and presence together? How can reading, listening, and subtle action become forms of performance and care?

Program

May 2, 5—7 p.m. │ Opening

The Living Reading Room opens with Disordered Attentions. A Game for Everyone, a social game of attentions by Camille Renarhd and Sandeep Bhagwati, where everyone can become a participant. Join us for a relaxed and playful collective art-making session.

May 3-5, 10 a.m.—6 p.m. │ Regular Hours

The Living Reading Room will be open daily.

We are privileged to have been able to borrow books from the following places and collaborate with the following wonderful people from :

We hope that if you read something here that you liked you will go look for it in their shelves after your time in the Living Reading Room:

This project is co-created by Valentina Plata, Deborah Carruthers, Camille Renarhd, and Co-investigator Member Sandeep Bhagwati.

Collaborators

Acknowledgements

The furniture was generously provided by the École Supérieure de théâtre depot, thanks to the support of Patrice Tremblay.

The artistic team warmly thanks Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, design professor at Concordia University, for the graphic design of the LRR Gazette; Kristian North, Alex Coté, and Paloma Leyton for coordinating the project on behalf of the Hexagram Network; and Jason Pomrenski and his team at the Agora du Coeur des Sciences de l’UQAM for their generous practical support.

The Living Reading Room is carried out by the Chantier Performa as part of the 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters.

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