Illusion

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Project for 11th Havana Biennial, within the project Open Score, La Habana, Cuba. From May 11 to June 11, 2012, Centro Hispanoamericano de la Cultura. Malecón 17 e/ Prado y Cárcel. http://www.bienalhabana.cult.cu Illusion Reading Room is a participative installation: there is a pile of 500 copies of my novel Illusion and two armchairs. In one of them, a permanent reader is reading out loud from the novel. Public are welcome to take one copy of the novel with them for free. It is only asked to do one thing in exchange: to sit down in the vacant armchair and take it over from the reader, by reading out loud a few pages for the rest of the audience. In this way, public become part of the installation as temporary performers, and the novel is read continuously without interruption throughout the whole duration of the Biennial.