"Perception is Reading" w/ Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Mira Mattar, Nikhil Vettukattil & Kylie Gilchrist

Perception is Reading is a special commission investigating the relationship between reading, imagination, interruption, and everyday experience. The piece features readings by Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Nikhil Vettukattil and Mira Mattar, organized and produced by Kylie Gilchrist.

Drawing on the specific qualities of radio, this program asks how experience is registered in the bodies and memories of individuals, and how individuals mediate collective histories by transmitting experience through bodies of text. Each contributor reads a note or unpublished text based upon a citation of another author’s work. Each note is read in three iterations, echoing the relationship between memory and everyday experience:

- Present: the note is read in the form it was written.
- Future: the note as read as what it became, or what it could be.
- Past: the note is read as what it was, or could have been.

A PDF booklet with transcriptions of each contributors’ texts is available for free download