Cancelled - Book Launch: UH HUH HER by Rachel Cattle, with a live performance by Bredbeddle - Camden Art Centre

Please note, this event has been cancelled.

Drawing upon their shared approach to composition and collage, Rachel Cattle and Bredbeddle (aka Rebecca Lee) will summon up figures, fragments and voices from the text, allowing them to erupt once again into the present.

UH HUH HER follows an unnamed, female narrator as she travels through school, then art school, then art school teaching jobs, finding or fashioning “the selves of herself” via encounters with PJ Harvey, the ghosts of Ann Quin, Susan Sontag, and a mansplaining Analyst that she first encounters in her grandparents’ garden. Both a love letter to creative life, and a requiem for all that is lost in its pursuit, UH HUH HER asks is it possible to record— and retain—our experiences of being on the outside? Or can such stories only exist within the institutions that shape them?

Presented in partnership with MOIST BOOKS.

The Artists

The Artists

Rachel Cattle is an artist, writer, and co-editor of JOAN Publishing. Previous publications include the sonic poem La a dybird (Ma Bibliotheque, 2019), and auto- fictive text/score Witch Dance (Centre for Useless Splendour, 2017). A member of experimental sound collective BxNT, and art-writing collective We Are Publication, Rachel has broadcast, exhibited, performed and collaborated with a number of UK arts organisations including Camden Arts Centre, Tate, and the ICA in London. She holds a Contemporary Art PhD from Kingston University, and an MA in creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London. UH HUH HER is her first full-length work.

Bredbeddle (Rebecca Lee) is an artist, musician and composer based in Nottingham, UK. Commissions and performances include Radar, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, The National Trust, Nottingham Contemporary, Radiophrenia, Thanet Tape Centre, Cafe Oto, Primary, Tor Fest, Wysing Arts Centre, Non-Classical, HCMF, Montex Press Radio, CRiSAP and Sonic Cyberfeminisms. She’s released with Fractal Meat Cuts, Bezirk, SARU, Enjoy Your Homes and Modern Aviation. www.rebeccalee.info

MOIST BOOKS is co-run by Susan Finlay, Nastassja Simensky and Hugh Nicholson. Inspired by the North American DIY publishing traditions that grew out of art, music, and LGBTQI+ scenes, MOIST publishes works of literary fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry in series of threes. Each ‘season’ is loosely based around a common theme, and seeks to acknowledge a diverse range of lived experiences, educational backgrounds, and cultural reference points. www.moistbooks.com