Book tickets
Join us to celebrate the UK launch of Rosanna McLaughlin’s Against Morality, the East Sussex-based writer’s incisive reassessment of the role of political values in contemporary art. McLaughlin will be in conversation with writer Dean Kissick.
Examining contemporary exhibitions as well as works of art and film, and the broader cultural reactions to them, McLaughlin investigates the consequences of a moralising approach to creative work. She invites us to ask whether a relationship between art and politics should exist at all. In arguing against morality in the arts, McLaughlin lays the groundwork for a more expansive concept of difference in twenty-first century art making. We hope you will join us for a lively conversation.
Examining contemporary exhibitions as well as works of art and film, and the broader cultural reactions to them, McLaughlin investigates the consequences of a moralising approach to creative work. She invites us to ask whether a relationship between art and politics should exist at all. In arguing against morality in the arts, McLaughlin lays the groundwork for a more expansive concept of difference in twenty-first century art making. We hope you will join us for a lively conversation.
Bios
Rosanna McLaughlin is a writer based in East Sussex. She is the author of two books, Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity (Carcanet, 2019), a collection of satirical essays and short fiction, and Sinkhole (Montez Press, 2023), her first novel. Her cultural criticism has appeared in Art Review, Frieze, Granta, and The Guardian, among other places. Between 2021 and 2023 she was co-editor of The White Review.
Dean Kissick is a writer based in London. His recent essay in Harper’s Magazine, “The Painted Protest,” looked at how “politics destroyed contemporary art.”
Book tickets
07:00 pm
Wed, 23 Jul 2025
Cinema 1
£12 full price / £8.50 concessions
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Dean Kissick
Rosanna McLaughlin
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