Expected Participants: Diverse gender marginal communities, Curious allies interested in collective reading, Personal Archive,  Students from interdisciplinary studies, Cultural practitioners engaged in para-discipline, Trans-media practitioners. We will be able to accommodate a maximum of 10 participants from the call. After reviewing your response, we will reach out to you asap.  

Prompts that we are curious to explore in the reading sessions 

1. As our attention shifts constantly from one moment to the next, how do these flickers—each carrying different degrees of urgency—shape our sensibilities, and in what ways do they contribute to the fragmentation of both individual consciousness and the wider collective?

2. In the context of expanded reading, how might we re-associate with loose memories—those not fully engaged because of their temporal and fleeting nature—and rework conceptual frameworks to imagine futures that are not repetitions of uncanny pasts?

3. “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” — A person is a person through other people.
   How can reading can move beyond an act of singularity and instead become a shared gesture—an ongoing process of re-prompting one another, and a quiet invitation toward collective re-engagement. 

The reading material we are curious to discuss/share/exchange as an extend mode of exploring prompt:

• Kill Joy Manifesto by Sara Ahmed

• Myths of the Marble by Alex Klein (ICA) and Milena Hoegsberg (HOK)

• Sarai Reader 05 : Bare acts

• Staying-with-the-trouble by Donna Harway

• All Quiet in Vikaspuri by Sarnath Banerjee

• S for Solidarity : The Jagori Alphabet Book

• The Temporary Autonomous_Zone Ontological_Anarchy Poetic_Terrorism by Hakim Bay

Note: Each reading session/s will be framed by a thematic prompt that serves as a point of departure for mutual reading, co-listening, non-conforming critical dialogue, and collective unlearning. During the first few months, sessions will be facilitated by Kaur Chimuk along with invited co-moderators. In the second half of the programme, members of the cohort will gradually take the lead—designing and facilitating their own reading situations as a form of shared responsibility and evolving pedagogy.

Know more :  Developed under Library as a Lived Space, a project in collaboration with  Kaur Chimuk* and FICA as part of the FICA programme Reading / Commoning opens this space for expanded dialogue—one that connects us through interpersonal needs that are multidirectional, interdisciplinary, and dialogic. The cohort weaves together theoretical inquiry, artistic practice, and conversations around contemporary glocal concerns, approaching reading as an experience that extends beyond institutional boundaries. CC will unfold in a hybrid format. Twice a month, reading gatherings—conceived as reading ceremonies—will take place at the FICA Reading Room. These sessions invite artists, writers, curators, scholars, and cultural practitioners who are interested in meeting through slow, attentive encounters. Together, we will map a cohesive space grounded in care and shared inquiry. Cohesive Correspondence will remain open to new members throughout the year. Like a hive, the cohort grows slowly and attentively. The emphasis is not on scale, but on depth—allowing associations to develop organically through curiosity, debate, and collective care rather than through fixed outcomes.  

About the Facilitator :

*Kaur Chimuk (pronoun as yellow/they) considers themselves a trans-binary person deeply engaged in subversive curatorial negotiations through artistic research and its unstructured performative manifestations. Primarily based in Southeast Asia, they work extensively across India and Bangladesh while maintaining an operational base in Sweden. They are the co-founder of Tracing A City - a curatorial research platform and intrans (the intersectional network for transglocal solidarity), which is dedicated to encouraging shared resources that empower communities and individuals in their pursuit of “re-existence.”/ know more  kaurchimuk.weebly.com