The reading series TRIBUTE invites participants to select and perform a text of any kind, as long as it was written by someone else. 

Initiated by writer and artist BRYONY DAWSON, the series considers the live reading as a site of encounter between distinct voices and different registers of language. Rather than centring originality or authorship, it foregrounds the relationship between a reader and the words of another, acknowledging that our thinking, speaking, and writing are always shaped by countless external voices. Participants are invited to experiment with how they “pay tribute” to these influences, whether they are grounded in admiration, identification, nostalgia, critique, or intellectual friction.


The annual programme at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is supported by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, and Hansestadt Lüneburg.

BRYONY DAWSON is a writer, curator, and sometimes-artist based between Berlin and Vienna. She runs the reading group Non-Productive Readers, as well as the reading series Tribute and screening/performance series Multiplex. Her creative and critical writing has been featured in Frieze, émergent magazine, Motor Dance Journal, Common Pink, Corridor8, Sore, and on Montez Press Radio. She is currently undertaking a Masters in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.