The practice of writing letters, by its extended reach, provides a way to document, share and cross distance. In this trying time, where many of us remain self-confined and separated from others, Perdu would like to make space for this delicate form of staying in touch.

We invite you take hold of your letters of choice and join us for an online reading experience. Whether it's “The Letters of Sylvia Plath”, Artaud's “1937 Apocalypse - Letters from Ireland” or correspondence from your personal archive, we propose a moment for us to read together, while apart.

Lifting its concept from the feminist genderqueer artist collective LTTR, the radical read-in proposes reading as an activist undertaking, bringing together a fleeting community of people through shared individual experience.

For this occasion, Perdu editor Martha Jager (DAI 2016) has invited artist and scholar Sebastian De Line (DAI 2016) who will open the online read-in with a reading of his/their work "Dear Louise". After this we will read together in silence for one and a half hour followed by 20 mins for comments, questions and/or to share extracts of what we've read. The read-in will be hosted on zoom. The room will be opened at 19:45 CMT and we start at 20:00 CMT. A link to zoom will be posted on the event page on the day itself.
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Sebastian De Line is an artist, scholar and lecturer based on Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory in Ka’tarohkwi (Kingston, Canada). He/they are a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University and curatorial resident for the Toronto Biennial of Art. Publications include Open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain, Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, and bauhaus imaginista journal.