Julia Bardsley - Reading Rooms: stages for rewriting and re-reading the book / Section L: Research Findings
Introduction
Section A: Digital Submission: Intro
Section B: Research Outputs: Intro
Section C: Research Output: RR_01
Section D: Research Output: RR_02
Section E: Research Output: RR_03
Section F: Research Process: Intro
Section G: Research Process 1: Expanded Writing & Reading
Section H: Research Process 2: Spaces for Reverie & Live Research
Section I: Research Process 3: Collaboration as Combative Coexistence
Section J: Research Process 4: Performance Scores
Section K: Research Dissemination
Section L: Research Findings
Section M: Appendix: Contents of the Box

RESEARCH FINDINGS

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)