CURA. presents a reading event in collaboration with Crack Reading Club. Founded by Sofia Gallarate and Caroline Drevait in 2020, CRC is a reading event in which multidisciplinary authors perform selected texts around themes that cut across heterogeneous genres and formats, ranging from experimental poetry to narrative writing and other hybrid textual forms. Previous editions of Crack Reading Club include Good Morning Lucidity at Baleno International, XXXtremely Online at Basement Roma, SEXY BEAST at Ermes Ermes, and CRC X BAAB. 

As part of UNAROMA, readings will be performed by Jahān Khājavi and Allison Grimaldi Donahue. 

The event will take place in the first-floor room dedicated to UNAROMA LIVE.
Free admission until capacity is reached.

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CURA. is a leading editorial and curatorial platform for international critical discourse, a performative hub aimed at the investigation of the contemporary art field, critical debate, digital culture, and the “new now.” Thanks to a network of international collaborations, CURA. publishes the biannual eponymous magazine CURA., and is engaged in curating exhibitions, biennials, festivals, and site-specific projects, including the artistic direction of Basement Roma, focused on producing group and solo exhibitions by international artists. CURA. is also engaged in editorial activity with book production, multimedia content, and multidisciplinary collaborations. It has additionally curated the 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennial (2021), and is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Basement Art Assembly Biennial (BAAB). 

JAHAN KHAJAVI (Fresno, California, USA, 1986) is "the best kind of pervert" (Farid Matuk) who composes "wildly amusing and explicit queer poetry" (Hamish Bowles, Vogue)  "with elements of swagger and sex" (Rob McLennan) that "luxuriates in the labor of the real" (PJ Lombardo, Tripwire) and "juggles truly absurd comedy and frank body talk with overwhelming tenderness and genuine corporeal joy" (Louis Fratino, Mousse). Khajavi’s "fabulous, fierce first collection" (Moira Egan) Feast of the Ass (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023), is "one of the most unique books of recent memory" (Johannes Göransson), which "at once flourishes and makes a flourish of classical Persian forms" (Joyelle McSweeney) "in which the sacred and profane fuck on the page" (After 8 Books) in "an explosion of queer diasporic sexuality" (Hasti) "fragrant of jasmine and trace fecal matter" (Charlie Stuip, Grotto).