Research Findings – key points:

• The Reading Room events served as a translation process within which texts became experienced as textures, offering physical and material 'writings' and ‘readings’ as alternatives to conventional understandings of what it is to read a book;
• By foregrounding the influence of duration on concentration and attention, these long experiences of live reading, between 4 and 10-hours, became activators for reverie;
• Being invited into the creative process, the audience are given access to and become part of generative acts of re-reading and rewriting;
• With combative coexistence as the mode of collaboration, the performance space becomes democratized, allowing each coexistent element to remain discrete;
• By decreasing the visibility of the source text, the cultural dominance of the singular authorial voice was disturbed, opening up space for collective and complex alternatives. In these events, no single reading of a text is privileged, and multiple readings and understandings are made possible.

Context: Bardsley Research Findings Complete document (in BOX)