A Language of ErasureMaria BarnasWriting is drawing, sewing is writing Annabelle BinnertsReading Over Your Shoulder or Second Hand NewsAnnelies KamenTime had Girl's backClara Amaral?Eva van BemmelenGuardrail HeartHilde OnisThe son whacked new rain pillows Jelena VanoverbeekREAD, A THATA THAT, IS FLAT Ode de Kortroom, mouth, movePuck KroonReading Characters, rrreeading, read, reads, the action or practice of a person, the oral interpretation of written language, the interpretation given in the performance of a life, a dramatic part, a musical composition : reading, read, you, me, they, them, etc.... reading, for a short while, shifting focus, building attention, for the full afternoon, silent reading, reading aloud, - interrupting a readers’ reading - spontaneous reading, until the moon rises, purposeful reading, losing-oneself-reading, and so on, in the book, the screen, the (space of) the page. Index, intertext, title page, annotations, subtext, characters, chapters, author’s notes, synonyms, homonyms, antonymes… All coming down to a written word, the reading of a sentence, a text, a story: reading and writing as nearly identical activities, because the author, as a writer, was always the reader, too. Reading as a form of making, book-as-artefact, as the anatomy of a text / the body of a text. And, when translating stage onto page: the desire to be like a character, the desire to read like a character, a story becoming performative, the parting of lips, breaths, sighs, stuttering stumblings, hesitance - breathe again - feelings, emotions. Speech, speechless, speaking while reading. The mouth, the eyes, I follow. You. You?Reading Characters, rrreeading, read, reads, the action or practice of a person, the oral interpretation of written language, the interpretation given in the performance of a life, a dramatic part, a musical composition : reading, read, you, me, they, them, etc.... reading, for a short while, shifting focus, building attention, for the full afternoon, silent reading, reading aloud, - interrupting a readers’ reading - spontaneous reading, until the moon rises, purposeful reading, losing-oneself-reading, and so on, in the book, the screen, the (space of) the page. Index, intertext, title page, annotations, subtext, characters, chapters, author’s notes, synonyms, homonyms, antonymes… All coming down to a written word, the reading of a sentence, a text, a story: reading and writing as nearly identical activities, because the author, as a writer, was always the reader, too. Reading as a form of making, book-as-artefact, as the anatomy of a text / the body of a text. And, when translating stage onto page: the desire to be like a character, the desire to read like a character, a story becoming performative, the parting of lips, breaths, sighs, stuttering stumblings, hesitance - breathe again - feelings, emotions. Speech, speechless, speaking while reading. The mouth, the eyes, I follow. You. You?