In lieu of an abstract, this is the first paragraph of the chapter: On the evening before the 2015 UK General Election, about fifty of us gathered in Trafalgar Square to read aloud this short manifesto written by the artist Zoe Leonard in 1992. We alternated between Leonard’s text and a revised version that had been co-authored in the early months of that year. As individual voices were carried in and out of audibility, the words they shaped became markers for two different, geographically and temporally remote, locations. Multiple "I"s fell in and out of unison; readers lost their place only to find their pace again among the others. Some chose not to read, mingling with our group or else standing on the peripheries with the crowd who had stopped to watch, bemused or interested by the sight. As we read, the papery bodies of the text threatened to disintegrate in heavy rain. For an hour we carved out a space in the city, stood together if not always in sync.

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