Richard Roe is the fictional memoir of a legal person. The name is one of the oldest used in English law, when someone’s real name is withheld, or when a corpse can’t be identified. Divided into seven fragmentary sections, this memoir gives voice to the legal fictions that creep around the margins of selfhood – and that increasingly dictate the terms of politics and economics. On the occasion of the launch, Coburn will read excerpts from the book exploring concepts of personhood from legal, psychological and metaphysical realms.
Join us Tuesday 25 June
Doors from 6pm, reading at 6.30pm
Doors from 6pm, reading at 6.30pm
ArtReview Bar
1 Honduras Street, London EC1Y 0TH
rsvp at rsvp@artreview.com
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Tyler Coburn is artist and writer based in New York. He has presented work at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Bergen Kunsthall; Kunsthalle Wien; Hayward Gallery, London; Para Site, Hong Kong; and Art Sonje Center, Seoul. His texts have appeared in e-flux journal, Frieze, ArtReview, Dis, Mousse, LEAP, and Rhizome.
Richard Roe is published by Sternberg Press and designed by Luke Gould.
