V&A Seminar Room A

London SW7 2RL

(meet at side entrance on Exhibition Road)

It could be suggested that the father of object-oriented writing is the Gertrude Stein of Tender Buttons, the mother the Roland Barthes of Mythologies. Though object-oriented writing is more likely their aborted fetus, having been revivified on a UFO by an extra-dimensional alien race that exists on a plane parallel to our own, and returned to this reality in order to contaminate it.

After a talk by Travis about this approach and his related work, attendees will have an opportunity to try out object-oriented writing for themselves in the V&A, probing its possibilities and directions. Open to all who practice any form of art, design or writing.

Travis Jeppesen is the author of five books, including Victims, the novel chosen by Dennis Cooper to debut his “Little House on the Bowery” imprint for Akashic Books, and Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary”. His play, Daddy, premiered at the HAU Theater in Berlin in 2009. His art writing has appeared in Artforum, Flash Art, and Art in America, among other publications, and he regularly collaborates with visual artists. Jeppesen’s new novel, The Suiciders, will be published by Semiotext(e) in 2013. He is currently based in Berlin and London, where he is a PhD candidate in the department of Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art.