KINDLING is an examination of the nature and value of reading and the printed word in an increasingly digital age. What is the value of printed books? And how can you control, manipulate and destroy education, ideas and narratives once transferred from page to human consciousness?
KINDLING explores the relationship between words and ideas, imagination and experience in a durational installation performance that questions why we read, the value of books as artefacts and where they take us individually and as a society.
KINDLING is the first work created by Peter Jacobs to be performed and has been successfully submitted to Emergency 2014 (Word of Warning) and will be performed at Z-Arts in Manchester on Saturday, 4 October 2014.
Peter will be joined by around 10 volunteer performers.
KINDLING explores the relationship between words and ideas, imagination and experience in a durational installation performance that questions why we read, the value of books as artefacts and where they take us individually and as a society.
KINDLING is the first work created by Peter Jacobs to be performed and has been successfully submitted to Emergency 2014 (Word of Warning) and will be performed at Z-Arts in Manchester on Saturday, 4 October 2014.
Peter will be joined by around 10 volunteer performers.
People have burnt books for almost as long as they have printed them. JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels are regularly torched for promoting witchcraft. Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses were burned by Muslims in 1988 for allegedly insulting Islam. Burning a book is a symbolic act – words are not just being suppressed, they are being destroyed by fire. In reality, the Nazi burnings were a very public, very threatening public relations stunt. The real impact was felt in homes, libraries and bookshops. Ray Bradbury once said: “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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