Readable Presence  – Learning From Ting

Film, 31’30’’, 2025.

By conversing with people in their proximity, the film's narrator explores the consequences of potentialy having been hypnotised in a Berlin club. The dialogues –  taking place in spaces where the narrator live their everyday life: a café, a church, a library  – revolve around the blurry boundaries between art and everything else, the sacred and the profane, the self and its representations. The trajectory of the narrator is also a quest for a queer self and the establishment of new kinships.  

The framework for the film, which can be seen as a stand-alone sequel to Unreadable Future, is the performance Lunchtime Service, which took place on 14 October 2024, at 12:00 in the Victoria Assembly in Berlin. 

produced with support from:
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
Inter Arts Center
transmediale e.V.
Svenska Victoriaförsamlingen i Berlin