READING A CODE is a project on the materiality and visuality of computer code and questions of illegibility. The performance works with the source code of a website and its video animation, both by artist Anike Joyce Sadiq (Utopian Institutions, 2022). The reading of the code circles around various aspects of the un/readability of computer languages, secret messages, digitality, institutional critique and codes of conduct.

The first iteration was developed in the context of „Reading Reading. On an Aesthetic Practice“, a research project by Barbara Bausch (EXC 2020: Temporal Communities, FU Berlin).

Performance, 20 min. As part of Reading Reading Room, daadgalerie Berlin on 18 March 2025.
Photographs: Eunice Maurice

Publication:
Reading a Code (Letter #1), in: con·stel·la·tions 03 | Illegibilities Reflecting Reading. Ed. Barbara Bausch, Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2025