Openned

Steve Willey and Alex Davies run Openned. Openned is both a reading series and a website. The readings are held in the vault of a converted bank, which is now a downstairs basement room in an East London bar called the Foundry. Openned has written this:

1. View a night as event - your audience as community.
2. 
Take a holistic approach, consider: pace, texture, politics. 

3. Build an event for a community - organiser as community member. 

4. The room is space. 

5. Walk into an open space, each time imagine the space is new/situated. 

6. Imagine events as separate entities, encroached in space, talking over time. 

7. Walk into an event - build an approach. 

8. Create an obstacle, forget it, find it later. 

9. Work from found material – space as found material. 

10. Talk as a method of excretion, a narrowing. Convergence. 

11. Simultaneously create yourself as stranger and member. 

12. Community member as event, member as debate point.
13. Event and talk in dialectic - synthesis of found material. 

14. Re-read previous events as a tactic of current construction. 

15. Create a non-linear network of pattern and fibre tracing. 

16. Re-write network out of fibre-optic into tactility; bonding. 

17. Constraint: isolate units of event, propelled over by talk, expelled over by time, viewed at night.