Richard Malone, áit don ghrá, 2021
Book tickets
This multimedia event presented by the Erotic Review considers what it means to possess a body—digital, real and imagined.
How has the digital world reshaped the body’s currency? Should we be troubled by the ascendance of the “perfect” body? Can the body be said to exist in any stable sense at all? And how might desire act as a bridge between the self and the body in all its forms?
Drawing on work from the latest Autumn/Winter issue of the Erotic Review, the evening explores the body’s shifting condition through video, readings and conversation.
Writer and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola examines how the “real” body is refracted through Grindr, while Dutch author Bregje Hofstede turns to the maternal body and the resurgence of desire following birth. Brittany Newell, author and performer, asks what it means to be a sex worker while living with chronic pain. Alex Quicho leads us into the digital realm, where the body navigates a shifting matrix of predator and prey. Artist Richard Malone will screen a video work and discuss their practice, which interrogates the body’s relationship to class, labour, visibility and desire.
The event will include a 30-minute conversation featuring Richard, Oluwaseun and Bregje, led by editor Lucy Roeber.
How has the digital world reshaped the body’s currency? Should we be troubled by the ascendance of the “perfect” body? Can the body be said to exist in any stable sense at all? And how might desire act as a bridge between the self and the body in all its forms?
Drawing on work from the latest Autumn/Winter issue of the Erotic Review, the evening explores the body’s shifting condition through video, readings and conversation.
Writer and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola examines how the “real” body is refracted through Grindr, while Dutch author Bregje Hofstede turns to the maternal body and the resurgence of desire following birth. Brittany Newell, author and performer, asks what it means to be a sex worker while living with chronic pain. Alex Quicho leads us into the digital realm, where the body navigates a shifting matrix of predator and prey. Artist Richard Malone will screen a video work and discuss their practice, which interrogates the body’s relationship to class, labour, visibility and desire.
The event will include a 30-minute conversation featuring Richard, Oluwaseun and Bregje, led by editor Lucy Roeber.
Bios
Bregje Hofstede is a Dutch novelist and journalist. Her latest novel, Oersoep (Das Mag, 2023), follows the intense physical experiences of childbirth and sex to the point where they become mystical.
Lucy Roeber is the founder, editor and publisher of the Erotic Review and the director of Erotic Review Publishing Ltd. She lives in London.
Richard Malone is an Irish artist and designer whose practice centres on experiences of queerness, class, place and otherness. Recent solo shows include A Record of Tenderness at The Dock in Leitrim and Knot Bind Gesture Bend at the National Gallery of Ireland. Malone exhibits internationally and their work is represented in the collections of MoMA, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Royal Academy and the V&A. In 2023, they won the Golden Fleece Award.
Brittany Newell is a writer and performer living in San Francisco. She is the author of two novels, most recently Soft Core (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2025) and Oola (Henry Holt, 2017), which she published at 21 years old. Her writing appears in Granta, N+1, The New York Times, Joyland and Playgirl, among others.
Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, choreographer and critic. His debut poetry collection, Strange Beach, published in January 2025 by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Soft Skull Press, was recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and was a Poetry Book Society Spring 2025 Special Commendation.
Alex Quicho is a theorist and research director in London. Her practice incorporates critical writing, performative lectures and moving image to focus on how emerging technologies warp social reality and vice versa. She is the author of Girlstack (2023–) and Small Gods (2021).
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07:00 pm
Wed, 07 Jan 2026
Cinema 1
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