We warmly welcome you to an afternoon of readings by artist and writer Bassem Saad and novelist and writer Persis Bekkering. They will be reading from recent poetry, fiction and translated work.

About Bassem Saad
Bassem Saad is an artist and writer born in Beirut. Her work explores notions of historical rupture, spontaneity, and surplus, through film, performance, and sculpture, alongside essays and fiction. With an emphasis on past and present forms of struggle, she attempts to place scenes of intersubjective exchange within their world-historical frames.

Bassems writing appears in The New Inquiry, Protean, Spike Art, Jadaliyya, FailedArchitecture, X-TRA, and The Funambulist. 

For more information, you can visit the website: Bassem Saad

About Persis Bekkering
Persis Bekkering (NL) is a Brussels based writer. Her recent publications include essays, art criticism and fiction in Dutch and English. She published two novels, Een heldenleven (2018) and Exces (2021), of which a chapter is translated into English and published separately as Last Utopia. She also teaches creative writing at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem (NL), and is co-founder of the Sex Negativity Research Group. 

Century Bingo
This reading is aligned with the closing of Century Bingo, Bassem Saad’s solo exhibition at Netwerk Aalst. On Saturday 11 January, NW is hosting a reading with Bassem Saad and Fallon Mayanja. More info here.