The Reading Room

The Reading Room is presented by Hinterland in association with Via Vaudeville! It is a regular event for individuals interested in discussing short texts and pieces of writing encompassing a wide range of topics including time, space, life, death, sex, perception and magic.

Academic and philosophical texts alongside critical theory provide useful links between disciplines such at the social sciences, humanities and contemporary art as well as being the predominant language of social theory and literary criticism.   For the uninitiated, to engage in such reading can seem like entering a perplexing labyrinth of conflicting schools of thought, complex theories and endless jargon. This regular meeting is for people who wish to expand upon their existing knowledge and for those who want to come along and learn about something completely new. Each month, an invited member of the group or a guest, will select a text and we will come together to discuss it and apply the chosen text to examples of art works, films, other texts or other phenomena.