The Reading Modules frame a series of thematic modules around concepts, ideas and fields of research in contemporary visual culture with a resonance to the present moment that will be led by different resource persons, including but not limited to academics, curators and critics. 

Each module is a composite set of focused online sessions, looking at the practice of reading as an annotative possibility for a group of participants. The sessions would be planned in a variety of formats to widen and deepen engagement with selected themes. Centralising certain key writings, schools of thought, systems of making and un-learning, and methodologies of research, the modules will emphasise processual and dynamic interactions as pivotal in curating a platform for reading critically, assuming non-hierarchical and dialogic approaches to deconstructing both theory and praxis.

The Reading Modules exemplify FICA's interest in sustaining and shaping acts of reading as critical, discursive, intimate and subversive; they will also include a prolonged, dedicated focus on chosen themes, permitting more thorough explorations over a period of time. We are also keen to ground the Modules in an accessible framework, evoking FICA’s investment in mobilising education resources for different audiences. This would entail working to devise portable thematic syllabi in conversation with the resource persons, creating blueprints across the various Modules and would also involve considering active modes of dissemination for the same. FICA hopes to be able to identify and reach out to secondary audiences in universities, colleges and other institutional settings that might benefit from the structure and content of the syllabi.