Main entry:

Najafi, Sina speaker.

Title & Author:

Speed reading : an afternoon reading marathon / organised by Sina Najafi and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Publication:

Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2012]

Description:

1 streaming video file (5 min., 38 sec.) : sound, colour

Notes:
Produced in conjunction with the exhibition 'La vitesse et ses limites' = 'Speed limits' held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, May 20-November 8, 2009.
Produced by the Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Video by Ezra Belotte-Cousineau for Productions la Petite Caisse de Boubou.
Speakers: Sina Najafi and other unidentified speakers.
In English and French.

Summary:

An afternoon reading marathon in which 20-25 people walk, jog, or run on a treadmill while reading aloud a text addressing the notion of speed. Reader-runners will share their preferred fast or slow manifesto, philosophical treatise, timetable, literary excerpt, slow-food recipe, biological notation, or space-time continuum in readings of 1 second to 4 minutes. Speed reading is a collaboration with Sina Najafi, Cabinet magazine editor and CCA Visiting Scholar, to celebrate the Speed limits exhibition and catalogue.

Subject:

Speed.
Vitesse.
Centre canadien d'architecture Events

Form/genre:

Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Streaming video.

Added entries:

Belotte-Cousineau, Ezra.
Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, organizer, host institution.
Centre canadien d'architecture. Enregistrements des événements.
Centre canadien d'architecture. CCAchannel.
La Petite Caisse de Boubou.
Centre canadien d'architecture issuing body, organizer, host institution.

French title on CCA website: Lecture rapide

Holdings:

Location: Library internet resource 307114
Call No.: 307114
Status: Available