An evening of words and films with Iain Sinclair and Andrew Kötting
[ID: two people are sat in a forest. One is sat on an old armchair: they are wearing a beanie hat and sunglasses, a black suit jacket and jeans. The one of the left is wearing a pointed brown hood and looking through binoculars. Both are staring back at the viewer]
Doors: 7pm
Tickets: £7 - £15
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Join us for an evening of words and films with author and psychogeographer Iain Sinclair & filmmaker and visual artist Andrew Kötting.
Bound by a deep friendship, their respective practices and shared sensibilities have often brought them together in forging new pathways, building rafts on which to sail off on quixotic quests that often deliver you back to the beginning, albeit with entirely transformed eyes. Their adventures are a lens through which to glimpse a kinder, more compassionate way of existing in this world.
Iain will be reading from two of his books published by Tangerine Press (another raft of sorts): My London Devils (2016) and 50 Catacomb Saints (2022). Andrew will be sharing with us two of his recent short films Because The Rest Is Silence (2020) and A Walk Back to The Last London by Way Of Watling St (2017)
About Iain Sinclair: After thinking he was done with London, and London with him, Iain Sinclair (in company with his daughter Farne) followed his great-grandfather into the low jungle around the headwaters of the Amazon. The resulting journey has been published as The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers. The paperback from Oneworld will be published in September.
About Andrew Kötting: born in Elmstead Woods, he grew up in Bromley and then left for Scandinavia where he became a failed lumberjack. Upon his return he lived in Deptford by the River Thames and obtained an MA in Mixed Media from The Slade. Thereafter he has resided in either the forests of the French Pyrenees or the coastline of St Leonards-on-Sea. He makes films, performances, installations, bookworks, CDs, LPs and music often in collaboration with his daughter Eden or the force-of-nature that is Iain Sinclair.