Project8 Gallery

Climate Reading Group

A reading circle for states of climate imbalance at Project8 gallery

Workshops

Event Details

Category

Workshops

Event Starts

Apr 11, 2026 15:00

Event Ends

Apr 11, 2026 16:30

Venue

Project8 Gallery

Location

Level 2 Project8 Gallery Level 2/417 Collins St Melbourne 3000

Join artist Jen Valender for an informal reading circle inside the exhibition ‘(It is Necessary to) Learn to Swim’ at Project8 Gallery.

Gathered in front of the moving-image work ‘Recounting Lore’, participants will read and discuss excerpts from The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells – the same text the artist attempts to read to macaques and monarch butterflies in the artwork. Part book club, part collective processing, part survival seminar, this low-pressure reading group invites conversation around environmental anxiety, imbalance and the strange stories we inherit about catastrophe and rescue.

No homework required. Come even if you haven’t read the text.

Registered participants will receive short readings in advance and a small prompt from the
artist to carry into the discussion.

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-group-for-states-of-imbalance-tickets-1985485435385?aff=oddtdtcreator

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