How to live on twenty-four hours a day

vocal performance in collaboration with the speedreading application Spreeder
duration variable

2022-25

A performance in collaboration with the speedreading application Spreeder, in which a passage from the early Self Help book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett is played through the application on my phone at 400 words per minute. I attempt a vocal recital of the book, reading and reciting as much as I can under the time stress. This presents a form of live poetry writing with the voice.

Documentation images from iterations performed at European Poetry Festival, London, 2022, and B-Open, Bergen Assembly, 2023