Near, Variations Book Launch

Book Launch Party: Near, Variations
Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 6-9 pm
StudioRCA
 1 Riverlight Quay,
Nine Elms Ln London
 SW8 5AU

Near, Variations is a collaborative publication made by students from the MA Critical Writing in Art and Design Programme at the Royal College of Art. As we prepare to release this book into this wild world we are hosting a special evening at StudioRCA to celebrate its launch and we would love for you to join us.

Entrance is free and doors open at 6.00pm. Reading and performances from contributing authors to begin at 7.00pm. There will be drinks!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Devise a strategy to get close to something using language. Weaving themselves into the literary tradition of texts written in response to a prompt, the eleven essays in Near, Variations attempt to reconsider verbal description to be as valid a form of description as visual depiction. Taking this aim to heart, the essays in this collection devise strategies to achieve proximity to their focal point. At once straightforward discussions of their subject matter, spanning art, music, poetry and film, the texts in Near, Variations are also enquiries into their status as essays. Their collective tone slips in and out of the academic register, often rejecting it altogether. Just as a window is both seen through as well as looked out of: as often as writing an essay is about its subject, it is also about its author and as often as it is about its author, reading it becomes about its reader, too.

Authors

Chloe Evans
Olivia Fletcher
 Anastasia Freygang
 Urshita Gautam
Flavia Gimenes
Elvira Højberg
Claire Mason
Hannah Nussbaum
Nick Popham
Niyoshi Shah
Oliver Williams
With an afterword by Chris Fite-Wassilak