‘Reader, I invite you to do the reading of the writing of my reading of what I am writing,’ writes the French poet Francis Ponge in La table (1967-73), the last of his notebook works, dedicated to the table that was his immediate work environment. In this lecture-performance, Jeroen Peeters takes up the invitation to do the reading of this notebook and the tables it evokes. Seated at a wooden table, Peeters activates the book of Ponge by way of reading, gestures as well as visual and textual annotations that are projected live.