Study Object Room

Ashkan Sepahvand is an artistic researcher based between Oxford and Berlin. His practice is text-based and highly collaborative, taking form as publications, performances, situations, and study.

Ashkan selected a transcription of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XII for this room.

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On this website and, in the real time conversations, we invite everyone to join in the reading and dialogue and to do so with an eye towards liberation and a generous respect for each other.

The room is small and intimate, but open to anyone who is interested. Sign up for the reading and conversation on September 24, 2020 (18:00 UK/19:00 DE), instructions are available here.

These conversations are open, and not limited by time or place. Anyone can contribute to the room's notes. Add your response to the text below. Reply to previous comments or topics, or suggest a new direction.

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