[Reading] Susan Finlay, Lucy McKenzie

We are delighted to welcome you for a reading by Susan Finlay and Lucy McKenzie. They will be reading from recent and forthcoming work involving Astro-Marxists, historic architecture of Brussels, hookup culture, and perhaps too many other places and people.

Schedule

19:00 Readings followed by a conversation between Susan and Lucy.

About Susan Finlay

Susan Finlay is a UK-born, Berlin-based author. She writes poetry, art criticism, and fiction, most notably The Jacques Lacan Foundation, which was a White Review Book of the Year, an Anti-Capitalist Resistance Book of the Year, and many UK independent and gallery bookstores' recommended reads.

Her latest novel, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe, a culturepreneruial horror, was publishd by Zer0 Books this summer. It features Astro-Marxists, a neurorobotic Al hivemind, the victims of an interrelated crypto-currency gaming scam, and a seemingly endless succession of ravers and gamers among others.

About Lucy McKenzie

Lucy McKenzie is a visual artist from Glasgow based in Brussels. Her work includes decorative trompe l’œil painting, sculpture, fiction writing,  curation and design (as part of the fashion label Atelier E.B with Beca Lipscombe). Recent shows include Super Palace, Z33, Hasselt, Orchestrion, JK3, Vienna and Plastic Newspaper, CRAC, Sète.

She is currently working on a new book for Joan Publishing (https://joanpublishing.org/) called The Turbine. Set in Brussels in 1921, it's narrative takes place within panoramas and fairgrounds; social spaces that are arcane analogies to contemporary hookup and dating apps. The novel makes visible all the sex and violence that historic architecture innately contains.

(Portrait photo credit Alan Dimmick)