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23.7.2016 | Blue-Star sightseeing boat, Berlin

BOAT RAGE #7: Young Girl Reading Group 132

Reading group with Dorota Gaweda/Egle Kulbokaite and Joshua Höareau, Nina Kettiger, Daniel Iinatti, David Moser, and Fritz Marlon Schiffers, music by Daniel Iinatti

// Preliminaries //

‘THE YOUNG-GIRL RESEMBLES HER PHOTO’

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Let’s be clear: the concept of the Young-Girl is obviously not a gendered concept.

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Behind every Young-Girl’s arse hides a bunch of rich white men: the task is surely not, then, to destroy the Young-Girl, but to destroy the system that makes her, and makes her so unhappy, whoever she is.

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YGRG started in autumn of 2013 in Berlin.

// The Young Girl Reading Group as Phenomenon //

Beyond the tide, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, YGRG is caught up in a system of references to other texts, other sentences: it is a node within network.

We are all bot-poets.

Our identities are somewhat interchangeable, ratifiable.

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Following text will be read during the event: Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler