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Pigeon Reader

“Pigeon Reader” is an intervention in a precise facsimile edition of Georges Perec’s book, “Species of Spaces and Other Pieces”, with only the single chapter on reading modified. Inspired by Perec’s musings on reading, which he likens to “a pigeon pecking at the ground in search of breadcrumbs”, Morris commissioned photographers to document pigeons reading the French author’s text: ‘Reading: A Socio-physiological Outline’. Morris was invited to exhibit the work in A Kind of "Huh?", (curated by Jérôme Dupeyrat and Maïwenn Walter), November 2012 to March 2013 at Les Abattoirs Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France and touring to CCAS, Grenade, April/May 2013. By invitation, the project presented in USA, February 2013 at The Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the 'Writers without Borders' series,Cabinet Magazine, NYC, Harvard University on the invitation of Professor John Hamilton as part of the Renato Pogglio Memorial Colloquium Series. Professor Annette Gilbert presented “Pigeon Reader” at a conference in Kiel, Germany, May, 2013 entitled, “A Dialogue on Writing”. Exhibited in Learn to Read Differently at the NGCA, Sunderland, August-September 2013 and reviewed by the Guardian and Independent. Morris presented “Pigeon Reader” at MISS READ festival in Berlin, September in association with Art Berlin Contemporary. “Pigeon Reader” is included in Convolution, no.2, the New York journal for experimental criticism. In the Keynote address, Morris presented “Pigeon Reader” at the “Arts Research Initiative”, University of Cumbria, October. By invitation, Morris presented the project at “The Book Lover’s Symposium” in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, October 2013. Working with colleagues at Teesside University across the disciplines of Dance, English, Fine Art & Graphic Design, Morris is co-organising a transdisciplinary conference on the work of Georges Perec, funded by the Modern Humanities Research Association, scheduled for March 2014.