An evening of words, in all kinds of forms blending art writing, poetry, performance, insults, and sweet nothings. The event takes the title of a new artwork ‘Insults To Rome’ by artist, Sam Hasler, as a starting point and a permission, to view the city with sly humour, impoliteness, strange satire, and mischief.
Our intention for the event is to take a friendly, welcoming, trusting, positive, curious, and forgiving approach. It would be really nice, if you attend, that you also arrive with a friendly, welcoming, trusting, positive, curious, and forgiving approach.
Sam Hasler is an artist and writer based in Wales. He held a Creative Wales Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2019. His work makes use of the awkward and uncomfortable energy of low brow forms film and writing. Within this landscape of genre tropes, he attempts to sneak experimental use of words and writing into enjoyable strange tales, contemporary myths, and fantasy auto-fiction. His previous novel length work O was published by Book Works (London) with inspirations from Giallo and Noir, film and fiction.
Insults to Rome has been generously supported by Arts Council Wales in its research and development stages.
