Autopsicografia Reading Night at Wonzimer is an interdisciplinary reading night by Brazilian artist Amanda Maciel Antunes initially created for an installation at Redondo Beach Historic Library, CA. The work’s centerpiece is a table with four chairs where guests are invited to sit, and read from their works in text...such as poetry, letters, transgressions and confessions. The table is covered with a handmade woven cloth that serves as an on-going embroidered poem by Antunes and guests. In her practice, she’s often concerned with anthropological texts and poetry in translation, reflecting on the selective nature of memory, language and cultural heritage. The title is from a poem of the same name by Fernando Pessoa. The work proposes many possible interpretations and the concept that language at first, lives primarily as a sound to be understood followed by meaning.

Mehregan Pezeshki

Adele Bertei

Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai

Regina Herod

Sara Ellen Fowler

ACTS: Four guests sit at the table and read from their works by taking turns. A projection (birds eye view) of table and hands will be simultaneously shown above on the wall. When guest is not reading they are welcome to embroider, write, stitch or simply do nothing and just wait for their turn to read again. This ends when all guests have read their works, and walked away from the table.