#61 Reading Group: Goddess Change

Since March 2024, Buro Stedelijk hosts the monthly speculative fiction reading group Goddess Change, initiated by artists Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz. The year 2024 is the date that marks the beginning of the story in Octavia E. Butler’s masterpiece Parable of The Sower, where young protagonist Lauren Olamina comes of age in the dystopian circumstances of a bleak future. The reading group will focus on this date, 2024, as the year in which the fictional book Parable of the Sower transitions from portraying the future into portraying the past. For this occasion Anna and Müge have invited artists, writers and scholars. Each of these experts will lead a different session, where we will be reading and discussing passages from Parable of the Sower and other feminist science fiction texts.

We will collectively look at the agency we find in speculative futures that are scrutinized through a feminist and queer lens. While reading different passages from various books, we will delve into possible translations between the visual arts and science fiction literature.

Buro Stedelijk Studio Space, 14:30 – 17:30
This event will be in English.

Manifestation #61: Reading Group Goddess Change is part of a series of Saturday afternoons hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk’s Studio Space.