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.

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.

French title on CCA website: Lecture rapide

Holdings:

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