Olivia Laing: Everybody (UK)

Olivia Laing: Everybody (UK)

Thursday March 10 2022, 5:00 PM NZDT (45 mins)

Consider the body. What could it be like to inhabit yours without any fear? This is the essential question at the heart of Oliva Laing’s book Everybody: A Book About Freedom. Laing centres her investigation around the life of radical psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich who invented the orgone (coined from the words orgasm and organism) machine. Alongside Reich, and her own experiences, Laing tracks a view on the long struggle for bodily freedom by looking to some of the compelling figures in recent history: Nina Simone, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X. In the context of a time such as our own – technologised, our freedoms curtailed by the devastating activity of a virus – we talk with the author of The Lonely City, the novel Crudo, and Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency about bodies, art and how to feel and think about them. Hosted by the author of Things I Learned At Art School Megan Dunn.

Looking for a book that features in this event? Check out the Unity Books website for Everybody by Olivia Laing and Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn

Please note: This stream will be available to watch until 11:59pm, Sunday 3 April 2022.
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