"Speed Reading" (London)

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Date: October 13, 2009, 7–8:30 pm
­Location: Tate Britain Auditorium, London

An hour-long relay race of sorts, this sweat-filled event features 20–25 writers and artists who will take turns reading texts on the notion of speed while jogging/running/ambling on two treadmills positioned side-by-side.­ The velocity of the treadmills will­ be controlled by a sadistic MC, the Speed Demon. Readings will be from novels, manifestos, po­ems, philosophical treatises, children's stories, timetables, recipes, parables, scientific experiments, or any other relevant genre.

Speed readers include Carey Young (artist), Jeremy Millar (artist), Craig Smith (artist), Una Knox (artist), Sally O'Reilly (writer) and Kieran Long (editor of Architecture Journal).

For tickets and more information about Tate Britain, see here.

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Nicholas Potter's "Enterprise Dog Power" treadmill, designed to power butter churns and other small farm machines, ca. 1881.

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