This month's pick, Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, selected by exhibiting artist Katarzyna Perlak, follows the character Connie Ramos. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony. But she also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...
The book club will start with a brief exhibition tour of Katarzyna Perlak's Better a bare foot than none, led by TBG+S's Sadbh O'Brien. Eric Patrick Byrne and Dónal Talbot of Queer Book Club will then lead the book club with some refreshments in Studio 1.
This event is a collaboration between Queer Book Club and TBG+S Art + Literature Book Club.
Queer Book Club Dublin is a community-led book club run by Donal Talbot and Eric Patrick Byrne. The club was established in March 2023 and operates through its Instagram profile @queer.books.dublin. The group meets monthly to discuss queer literature, focusing on a different novel every month, either written by a queer writer or dealing with queer themes. It is open to everyone and anyone that wants to engage with queer literature, regardless of their own identity. Using queer-friendly spaces in Dublin as a base, the club usually meets at Love Tempo, but have also hosted events at Street 66, All My Friends and the International Literature Festival.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre. A centre for creativity in the capital, we provide a place for artists to thrive and ways for you to experience contemporary art. For free. For everybody. Founded in 1983 - by artists, for artists.
