Work of constant change: Orit Gat on Ed Atkins at The Kitchen

On the day I went to see the artist Ed Atkins perform as part of Performance Capture, his current exhibition at The Kitchen in New York, he stepped onto a low, wooden stage in the exhibition space and began reading aloud from his book A Seer Reader, which was published by Koenig Books in 2015. He did not stop—not to recalibrate his pace, gather his thoughts, nor to take a sip of water from the unopened bottle in front of him, nor even to stumble over a word—until he finished the boo