Reading: Sean Roy Parker, Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf & Carle Gent

Join us for the final leg of Roy's year long book tour in support of his latest publication stewarding, published by Monitor Books.

Carle Gent is an artist from Bexhill-on-sea. She recently convened the Study Day on Biological Exuberance at Hospitalfield, Arbroath - a weekend of dance, talks, video, sound and performance looking at gay and trans animal life. They have also recently started a practice-based DPhil at the Ruskin School of Art asking how artmaking can meaningfully assist us in recognising the queer and internal lives of non-human animals. She has recently exhibited her sculptures, songs, vehicles and printouts at SQIFF, Glasgow Women's Library, Generator Projects, Pulsie, Matt's Gallery, Badischer Kunstverein, the De La Warr Pavilion, ICA, Somerset House, Goldsmiths CCA, Wysing Arts Centre, Jupiter Woods and the Museum of English Rural Life. Their pamphlet The Balls of Alban was published by Monitor Books in 2022.

Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf is a writer and artist in Scotland. For several years, they’ve been writing poetically about collective experimentation in training their body toward new horizons of queer and class liberation. They’re asking, “what ethical necessity is there to strain beyond personal capacity?” from their position of being working class, nonbinary, mixed race and queer. Adam is a Lecturer in Fine Art in the University of Edinburgh. They are currently finalising their practice-based PhD forming writerly responses to the invisible labour of facilitation and workshopping in contemporary art. This project is supervised principally by Professor Maria Fusco, with Dr Johanna Linsley and the Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) Beth Bates, fully funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, hosted jointly by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, the University of Dundee and DCA.

Sean Roy Parker is an artist, writer and landworker who works open-endedly across many disciplines with many collaborators in many places. He works exclusively from an eco-critical position, usually illustrating expanded material lifecycles, developing interspecies intimacy and teaching low-tech food preservation. He is a former student of School of the Damned, and currently is a Guest Mentor on The Gramounce Food/Art MA. Until its closure, Roy was a core member of The Field, an experimental artist-run living project in an ex-Steiner School building in Derbyshire, East Midlands. In 2024, he received an Axis Fellowship and a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Award, and his debut collection 'stewarding' was published by Monitor Books, London. He has recently completed artist commissions for Original Projects (Great Yarmouth), Audra Festival (Kaunas, Lithuania), and Three Rivers Bexley (London).