Please join us to celebrate the launch of Archive of Destruction Reader II. Jes Fernie, curator and writer, will introduce the archive and Reader at 7pm. She will be joined by Gareth Bell-Jones (Director, Flat Time House) and Rosie Ram (Course Leader, MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins) who will respond to the archive and the provocations embedded within it.
Wednesday 23 April 2025
6.30 – 8.00pm
Flat Time House
210 Bellenden Road
London SE15 4BW
The Reader includes conversations, texts, photos, statements, reflections and a graphic story on the necessary destruction of artworks; vulnerability and death; catharsis and joy; restorative practice; ghosts of our youth; and archives of neglect.
Contributions by / with artists, curators, academics and writers: Pilar Quinteros, Tschabalala Self, Joseph Constable, Jaime Gili, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy, Rosie Ram, Ben Cranfield, Jes Fernie, Josephine Meckseper, David Hammons, 3Nós3, Olu Oguibe, Jacob Epstein, Henry VIII’s Wives and Candice Purwin.
Edited by Jes Fernie
Graphic design by Daly & Lyon
Published by Flat Time House
£8
All proceeds go towards contributors’ fees for Reader III
36 pages, 289 × 380 mm, printed web-fed offset in full colour onto 55gsm improved newsprint
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