Join our first gathering in OUTLINE’s new studio space, around our latest publication Blurry Angel: Letters on Liking by Benedikt Kuhn and Romy Day Winkel. We will welcome writers Nadia de Vries and Simone Atangana Bekono for readings from their own work (in English), alongside a reading from the publication by the authors.

Blurry Angel: Letters on Liking is the shared and intertwined epistolary space of writers Benedikt Kuhn and Romy Day Winkel. After a mutual friend introduced them, their meeting unfolded into writing emails back and forth, revealing a shared interest in the works of Unica Zürn, Leonora Carrington, Else Blankenhorn and Paula Rego. In an attempt to find out what they both like about these and other works, they navigate the writing of Bourdieu, Glissant and Berlant, exploring relations such as automation and feeling, synchronized affect and desubjectivation, and the history and present of surrealism.

This publication holds the affirmations, doubts, allusions and references in Romy and Benedikt’s thinking-while-relating. Consisting of three parts – a letter exchange, a text written together in an literary game of exquisite corpse, and a reflective postscript by writer Marija Cetinić – these addresses offer different windows into the authors’ interpersonal space of enmeshed tastes.

Where: OUTLINE at Het Veem, Amsterdam (entrance at dockside: Van Diemenkade, follow the signs)
When: Sunday 26 January 2025
Doors: 4pm
Start program: 4.30pm