Lis Rhodes: Telling Invents Told reading group

Lucy Reynolds leads a reading group on and around the writings of artist and filmmaker Lis Rhodes on the occasion of the publication of the anthology Telling Invents Told (The Visible Press, 2019) and of Rhodes’ major exhibition Dissident Lines at Nottingham Contemporary. Each session will focus on a selection of texts by Rhodes and others, with reading material shared in advance with all participants. The book can also be purchased through LUX at a discounted price (£12) for the reading group.
Tuesdays 2, 9, 16 July 2019 / 6.30pm – 9pm
Tea, coffee & other refreshments provided.
“Lis Rhodes is an artist who takes words seriously, whether spoken, on the page or on the screen. Telling Invents Told draws together texts and images from across a career committed to unpicking the power relations of language. The book provides a rich inventory of texts written for a range of purposes: to accompany film images, to question established histories and advocate for the women left out of them, and, in extracts from her recent visual essay Journal of Disbelief, to call out injustices in all of their many forms. This indispensable volume offers a valuable opportunity to appreciate the inventiveness of Rhodes’ writing and its vital role in understanding her art.”
(Lucy Reynolds)