INDEX

Maximillian William presents INDEX, a programme examining the relationship between writing and art-making. Conceived as an intermission between exhibitions, INDEX brings together artists who write and writers with an affinity for working beyond the page, offering a space for dialogues between disciplines and for constellations of cross-pollination. Throughout February, events will take place within the gallery, including talks, readings and performances, which will unfold editorially around themes and prompts. 

INDEX is both a list of references, paying respect to writerly inspirations, and a point, gesture or signal outward. Responding to the increased centering of writing within contemporary artists’ practices, INDEX is an invitation to summon a community, and a provocation to think about language in new ways.

SERAFINE1369 / Bhanu Kapil / Blue Pieta

Saturday 17 February, 5pm
SCORING BODIES

Bhanu Kapil and Blue Pieta have been collaborating for four years, sometimes with others. As Bhanu reads Opaque Index: Notes on Impasse, Blue will perform Cartographic Moonlight. SERAFINE1369 will dance over a reading, performing an entangled relationship with text. RSVP here.

Sheena Patel / Michelle Williams Gamaker

Thursday 22 February, 7pm
FANDOMS AND FICTIONS

Sheena Patel, author of I’m A Fan, and Michelle Williams Gamaker, artist and filmmaker, come together to talk about fictional revenge, and fandom as a writing device. RSVP here.

Emii Alrai / Richard Maguire / Hannah Regel

Thursday 29 February, 7pm
ARCHIVAL GHOSTS

Artists Emii Alrai and Richard Maguire will be in conversation with writer Hannah Regel about bodies in archives, dreams, hallucinations and lullabies as writing tools, and how these ghosts haunt their work. RSVP here.