The Park Bench Reader is an ongoing performance series by the artist Bram Thomas Arnold. Regular Sunday afternoons find Bram reading a classic work of English Literature to passing members of the public. In 1840 Joseph Strutt opened England's first public park, the decade went on to give voice to a whole generation of England's finest authors. The Park Bench Reader seeks to draw these two seemingly unassociated events together again and question the pace of life in a society ever racing forward.

Thursday, 10 July 2008

On the 6th June 2008 7 benches on the Prince of Wales pier were occupied by readers who read from their favourite novels. The opening sections of Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban; Jane Ayre by Charlotte Bronte; Cat's Eyes by Margaret Atwood; The Wanderer by Alain Fournier; The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Catcher in the Rye by J. d. Salinger; and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami could be heard drifting out over the harbour in the windy sun of a friday afternoon in June. Many thanks to the readers and to Live Art Falmouth for their help in organising the event. Read the AN review of the event here http://interface.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/442103
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