2 June 2024, 2pm
Cafe Oto
Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
Free but RSVP

Come and celebrate the London launch of Roy Claire Potter’s debut novel The Wastes, at Cafe Oto on Sunday 2 June 2024.

The launch event will begin with a new reading performance by Roy Claire Potter and Kieron Piercy, whose previous collaborative releases and broadcasts include Conversations with the Anthony Burgess Archive on Sub Rosa, and Three Sweep Between for Glasgow’s art radio station Radiophrenia. This will be followed by a conversation about the themes and production of the novel in the context of artists who write with Daniella Valz Gen, who is the 2024 Writer in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery.

The Wastes is published by Book Works as part of the Arrhythmia series, edited by Katrina Palmer.

Roy Claire Potter has released duo and solo audio works with labels like Cafe OTO’s Otoroku and Takuroku, Sub Rosa, Chocolate Monk, and Fort Evil Fruit, and has worked with a broad range of musicians and sound artists including Park Jiha, Ziúr, Kieron Piercy and Bridget Hayden. With a visual art background in experimental art writing and drawing, Roy tells stories built from fragmented, intense images that depict moving bodies or domestic scenes and architectural settings, often focusing on group dynamics or the aftermath of violent events with a dark, sometimes wilful humour. They publish writing and make exhibitions internationally, and recent collaborations for stage and broadcast have been made possible by BEK, Counterflows, Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3, and Wysing Art Centre’s Polyphonic music festival with Somerset House.

Based in Leeds, Kieron Piercy produces amateur acousmatics for computer and electronics with releases on Harbinger Sound, Porta, and Chocolate Monk.

Daniella Valz Gen is an artist and writer born in Lima and based in London, who works across installation, text, and live performance. Their work investigates different forms of embodying liminality, and reflects on the negotiation of territories, modes of address, and value systems. They are the 2024 Whitechapel Gallery Writer in Residence and their first collection of poetry Subversive Economies is published by PSS.

Sales Assistant, Book Works (1 day per week)
Salary: £30,000 (pro-rata £6,000 per annum)
Permanent contract (probation period 8 weeks)
Location: Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London, EC2A 4JB (please note this is not a remote role).

Book Works seeks a Sales Assistant to work with the Publishing Manager on all aspects of sales and distribution.

Book Works is a non-profit organisation, a registered charity, and receives NPO funding from Arts Council England. We publish approximately 8-10 titles a year, and also have an extensive backlist of titles, in addition to special editions and prints that are published from time to time. Visit our website to see the full range of titles: www.bookworks.org.uk.

Book Works is committed to making a positive impact to address inequality and discrimination. Through our work, employment and audience engagement, we pursue a programme that foregrounds social justice in the arts. Our programme reflects our desire to work with artists and writers from the global majority who are often unrecognised by mainstream institutions, and those from liberation or historically marginalised groups. You will be part of a team with a public face and play a role in ensuring that principles of equality, diversity and inclusion are foregrounded in our work. You will also be part of a team that is exploring new ways of improving our commitment to climate justice.

To apply please submit your CV, a covering letter and completed equalities monitoring form to [email protected], with Sales Assistant in the subject, by midnight on 11 June 2024. If you have any questions about this process, or access needs that you would like to discuss please get in touch.

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