19:00 / 04.04.25 / Free
Join us for an evening of readings at Burley Fisher Books from Ed Atkins, Ghislaine Leung, and Steven Zultanski, hosted by Gareth Evans. Atkins’ Flowers is forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions, 10.04.25, Leung’s Bosses is available via Divided Publishing, and Zultanski’s Help is published by Tenement Press, 04.04.24. Copies of all three readers’ works will be available on the night.
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Flower is propulsive and it doesn’t let up. It’s about vulnerability, sort of, and invincibility: it swings between these poles. It’s about mortality, too, and in that sense humanity. To speak the book back at itself, I confess it did get to me.
—Isabel Waidner, on Atkins’ Flower
(Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025)
Few artists dig deep into themselves like this: an extraordinary insight into the process of producing art.
—Cosey Fanni Tutti, on Ghislaine Leung’s Bosses
(Divided Publishing, 2023)
Help is a completely unique and compellingly brilliant work. I was riveted by the strange theatre of discussion, the sociality of speech and the hilarious, macabre themes it naturally leads to. I wish there were more writers like Zultanski, writers playful and secure enough to so simply nudge existence into new terrain. Alas there are very few, so we have to grab rare works like this when they come around.
—Holly Pester, on Zultanski’s Help
(Tenement Press, 2025)
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Ed Atkins is an artist based in Copenhagen. His most recent book, Flower, is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and his survey exhibition runs at Tate Britain from April to August.
Ghislaine Leung is a British conceptual artist. Her work uses score-based instructions to
radically redistribute and constitute the terms of artistic production. Leung has had solo exhibitions at Kunstahlle Basel; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Simian, Copenhagen; Maxwell Graham, New York; Ordet, Milan, Italy; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Cabinet, London, UK; Chisenhale, London, UK; Reading International, Reading, UK; and elsewhere. Her first book was Partners (Cell Project Space, 2018) with her second book Bosses published in 2023 with Divided. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2023 and lives in London, UK.
Steven Zultanski is the author of ten books, including Relief (Make Now, 2021), On the Literary Means of Representing the Powerful as Powerless (Information as Material, 2018), Honestly (Book*hug, 2018), and Bribery (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014). With Ed Atkins, he co-wrote and co-directed Sorcerer, a theatrical project which has been realised as a play, a film, and a book (Prototype, 2023). He lives in Copenhagen.
Gareth Evans is a writer, curator, producer, publisher and event host. He works on special projects for the London Review of Books. He has co-written the film Wayfaring Stranger (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, IFF Rotterdam 2024) and produced Schneewittchen (Stanley Schtinter, IFF Rotterdam 2024).