About this Event
Join us for a conversation between Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Clem Clement and Gareth Evans to celebrate the publication of BLACKOUT (Les Fugitives, Oct 2025)
Blackout is a brief, intense, fragmentary account of silence and darkness in visual art, music, literature and philosophy. The writing juxtaposes essayistic observations with an emotionally-charged letter to the father, dead for 10 years, exploring an increasingly elusive bond: a laconic childhood, the son’s rejection of his working-class background and the loss of his father to dementia.
'We carry our own silence and that of others like organs. We make our own silences and harvest them. In Tytelman's haunted and haunting text, even ghosts are breathing.'
– Gareth Evans
‘A haunting, delicately woven elegy; a luminous act of love written into the void. Let it draw you in. Let it speak to your own silences.’
– Suzanne Joinson (from her preface to Blackout)
schedule
7 doors
730 conversation and Q&A
9 book signing
11 end
Yann Chateigné Tytelman is a French author and curator living in Brussels. He has been a curator at the KANAL-Centre Pompidou Brussels, head of the Visual Arts Dept at HEAD in Geneva and chief curator at CAPC in Bordeaux, among other positions. He is a guest lecturer in the Curatorial Studies programme at KASK & Conservatorium, Gent. In 2023, he co-founded Celador, an art space run by a reading group collective in Brussels.
Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film and event producer. He hosts the LRB Screen at Home programme and has curated numerous film / event seasons and festivals across the UK. From 2012-23 he was Whitechapel Gallery’s Adjunct Moving Image Curator.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 3.00
