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Arrhythmia Reading Circle #3

Arrhythmia is a new series, commissioned by Book Works and edited by Katrina Palmer. The series publishes artists and writers whose work explores ideas of being out of joint with the predominant social order, whether through disrupted trajectories, physical displacement, or political dissonance. We asked for experimental work that articulates a discontinuous sense of identity, and writing, or where the combination of writing and images in which the rhythm of the text is self-consciously questioned. Four authors have been commissioned – novels, writing and sound work by Roy Claire Potter, Alice Walter, Andrew E. Colarusso and Kamwangi Njue. 

Please join an online reading circle, facilitated by curator Kristy Trinier, discussing excerpts of publications from the Arrhythmia series, edited by artist Katrina Palmer, commissioned by Book Works; in partnership with Mile Zero Dance.

  • There are three events. Participation is free via an online Zoom video link provided in advance of the event, each approximately 1-1.5 hr in duration. 
  • An excerpt of each publication will be circulated to participants prior to the event, along with access for Kamwangi Njue’s audio tracks. The texts are approximately 10 pages each. 
  • If you’re inspired to read the publication in full, please contact Magpie Books locally, or order the publication online: bookworks.org.uk
  • Conversations will be facilitated by Kristy Trinier with Marjorie’s Glove, a platform for creative exchange over distance. 

For any additional information please contact Kristy Trinier at hello@marjoriesglove.org

Arrhythmia Reading Circle #1: The Medium, ALICE WALTER
Sun, Feb 23, 2025 1 PM MST

Arrhythmia Reading Circle #2: Black Body Index, ANDREW E. COLARUSSO  
Sun, Mar 30, 2025 1 PM MST

Arrhythmia Reading Circle #3: Through the Tinnitus, KAMWANGI NJUE and The Wastes, ROY CLAIRE POTTER
Sun, Apr 27, 2025 1 PM MST 

READING CIRCLE #3
This edition of the reading circle includes publication excerpts and audio tracks!

Through the Tinnitus, KAMWANGI NJUE (2024)
Through The Tinnitus explores spatial and sonic phenomena through psychoacoustics—the
scientific study of how sound is perceived psychologically. Using a version of the pioneering Soviet-
designed ANS photo-optical synthesiser, images taken in the artist’s locale, the Jamhuri and Sabaki
Neighborhoods of Nairobi, are processed and converted into graphical or drawn sound. In the sound
work accompanying the book, these ekphrastic rhythms hum to the sonic backdrop of political
violence and utopian dreams.

A free download code for the album will be provided on purchase of the book.

Kamwangi Njue is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and experimental beatmaker from Nairobi, Kenya.
Through The Tinnitus is published as part of Arrhythmia, a series curated for Book Works by Katrina
Palmer.

Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer, living in London. She is the author of The Dark Object (2010),
The Fabricators Tale (2014), End Matter (2015) and Black Slit (2023), all published by Book Works.
She has exhibited extensively, including with an Artangel Open commission (2015), at Henry Moore

Institute (2015-16), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2018), and with Estuary and Waterfronts (2021). She
received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists (2014).
Published November 2024

Through the Tinnitus | Commission: Arrhythmia | Editor: Palmer, Katrina; | ISBN: 9781912570232 |
Price: £12.00 (Reduced from £14.00) + VAT | Format: Book; | Extent: 164pp | Edition: 750 copies |
Dimensions: 140mm x 200mm | Publisher: Book Works | Designer: Traven T. Croves

https://bookworks.org.uk/publishing/shop/through-the-tinnitus/

The Wastes, ROY CLAIRE POTTER (2024)
After the death of her mother a woman decides to visit a familiar strip of rural upland, darkly
identified on the South Pennines Ordnance Survey map as: The Waste. As she moves between
trains, shunted by public encounters and haunted by past bar jobs, damp bedsits and a press shot of
Vanessa Redgrave smoking in the bath, found slipped between the pages of her mother’s diary, the
threshold between her past, present and future self dissolves. Fringe images she has neither
designed nor authored begin to steer her toward grid reference 3499, where underfoot the semi-solid
mud turns with worms and ants.

The Wastes is published as part of Arrhythmia, a series curated for Book Works by Katrina Palmer.
Roy Claire Potter works between performance and experimental art writing with recent work
commissioned by Tate Britain and Tate Publishing, Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3, Cafe OTO
and Counterflows, and Primary. They are Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores
University.

The Wastes | Potter, Roy Claire; | Commission: Arrhythmia | Editor: Palmer, Katrina; | ISBN: 978 1
912570 20 1 | Price: £14.00 | Classifications: Appropriation; Critical; Journey; Open Submission;
Pop/everyday; Queer; Realised; Un-realised; Unreliable narrative; Urban; | Format: Book; | Extent:
178 | Edition: 1,000 copies | Dimensions: 138mm x 200mm | Publisher: Book Works | Designer:
Traven T. Croves; | Printer: Robstolk, Amsterdam

https://bookworks.org.uk/publishing/shop/the-wastes/

EDITOR BIOGRAPHY

Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer, living in London. She is the author of The Dark Object (2010),
The Fabricators Tale (2014), End Matter (2015) and Black Slit (2023), all published by Book Works.
She has exhibited extensively, including with an Artangel Open commission (2015), at Henry Moore
Institute (2015-16), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2018), and with Estuary and Waterfronts (2021). She
received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists (2014).

Gratitude and thanks to all authors; Katrina Palmer, artist and editor of the Arrhythmia series of commissioned new works; Gavin Everall and team at Book Works, UK; Gerry Morita, Lexi Pendzich and Stacey Cann at Mile Zero Dance in amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton, Canada. 

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Arrhythmia Reading Circle #3

Arrhythmia Reading Circle #3: Through the Tinnitus, KAMWANGI NJUE and The Wastes, ROY CLAIRE POTTER
Sun, Apr 27, 2025 1 PM MST 
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