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Roy Claire Potter: The Wastes launch

Roy Claire Potter: The Wastes launch

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Join us to celebrate the launch of THE WASTES by Roy Claire Potter (published by Book Works), with an evening of readings from the author and guest artists and writers. 

After the death of her mother a woman decides to visit a familiar strip of rural upland, darkly identified on the South Pennines Ordnance Survey map as: The Waste. As she moves between trains, shunted by public encounters and haunted by past bar jobs, damp bedsits and a press shot of Vanessa Redgrave smoking in the bath, found slipped between the pages of her mother’s diary, the threshold between her past, present and future self dissolves. Fringe images she has neither designed nor authored begin to steer her toward grid reference 3499, where underfoot the semi-solid mud turns with worms and ants...

The Wastes is published as part of Arrhythmia, a series curated for Book Works by Katrina Palmer.

Influenced by linguistics and performance theory, Roy Claire Potter is an artist writer who performs, publishes and exhibits. They often collaborate with musicians and sound artists to make audio for music festivals and radio. Roy has recently presented solo and collaborative work with Book Works, Cafe OTO, Serpentine, and Camden Arts Centre (all 2024); Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (2023); Counterflows, Cafe OTO, and PRIMARY (all 2022); Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3, and A plus A gallery (all 2021); and Tate Britain with Tate Publishing (2019). Their debut novel The Wastes was published by Book Works earlier this summer, and shorter works have been published with Ma Bibliotheque, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Hotel Partisan, Tate Publishing, MOSTYN and CCA Derry-Londonderry. Live and studio recorded audio works are released with Cafe OTO’s OTOROKU and TAKUROKU labels, London; Sub Rosa in Belgium; Chocolate Monk in Brighton, and Fort Evil Fruit in Dublin.

Roy is Senior Lecturer of Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University, and they are represented by A plus A gallery, Venice.

 

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