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December 2018
New book(s) launch at Maggs Bros (Living with Buildings and the ultimate bibliography)
Iain and Jeffrey Johnson will launch their latest books in a combined event at Maggs Bros in London from 6pm on December 4th. There will be a Q&A session with the public starting at 7pm. Copies of the books will be available for sale and Iain and Jeff to sign them.
Find out more »January 2019
In conversation at the Wellcome Collection with Rowan Moore about Living With Buildings on Jan 24th
I'll be having a public conversation about Living with Buildings at the Wellcome Collection on Jan 24. This will be chaired by Rowan Moore, the architecture critic and essayist. 7 - 8.30pm. Henry Wellcome Auditorium. https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/Wk4sPSQAACcANwrX
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Heritage Cruise with Iain Sinclair
Hop aboard a Thames Clippers boat and cruise to Barking and back with Iain Sinclair, one of London’s most highly respected authors. Iain will be sharing smelly riverside histories, sights and scents and submerged Thames memories. Part of The Barking Stink - a scented heritage project. Engage your senses to discover London’s layered mysteries and stories. Iain Sinclair is author of numerous critically acclaimed books focusing on London. He was born in South Wales. He went to school in the…
Find out more »October 2019
LRB at 40: Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair
Description Join LRB contributors and editors at the London Review Bookshop in the month of the paper’s 40th anniversary, as they reflect on the last four decades through the lens of subjects they’ve written about in the pages of the LRB. In the first event of the series, Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair will discuss shared preoccupations starting with London. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lrb-at-40-rosemary-hill-and-iain-sinclair-tickets-69904693821?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Find out more »November 2019
The Whalebone Box. A new collaboration with Andrew Kötting
Artist, writer and director Andrew Kötting has built up a string of quintessentially British films. The Whalebone Box is another of his experimental jaunts made with his regular collaborators and this time with his daughter Eden in the lead role. Shot in Super 8, 16mm and with an inspired use of archive material, this is a strange, haunting and magical film … with a sting in the tale.
A box made of whale bone, entangled in a fisherman’s net was washed up on a remote beach in the Outer Hebrides. Is it an enigmatic object containing a secret? A relic, a survivor from a mysterious shipwreck or perhaps possessing magical powers? No-one knows except that it was given to writer Iain Sinclair who sets out with Kötting and the artist Anonymous Bosch on an expedition to return the box to its place of origin on the Isle of Harris.
And all the while Eden Kötting narrates the story, working as both muse and soothsayer. She tries to make sense of the strange and mystical goings on as the journey unfolds, sometimes awake and sometimes in deep sleep. Ultimately the whalebone box is finally buried in the sand on the very beach from which it came all those years ago.
+ IN FAR AWAY LAND Dir: Andrew Kotting. UK 2019. 6 mins
A companion piece to The Whalebone Box, featuring Eden Kötting’s animated drawings, collages and paintings by the artist Glenn Whiting and the voices of John Smith, Miranda Pennell, Mikhail Karikis and Marcia Farquhar.
Followed by a Q&A with director Andrew Ko?tting and Iain Sinclair
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