20. september: Author talk with Heather McCalden & Anne Kølbæk Iversen: "The Observable Universe"

Author talk with Heather McCalden & Anne Kølbæk Iversen: "The Observable Universe" 

Sted: Thiemers Magasin, Tullinsgade 24, 1618 København
Dato: Fredag 20. september kl. 17-18

On the 20th of september author and multidisciplinary artist Heather McCalden is coming to Thiemers Magasin to talk about her book "The Observable Universe - An investigation" with art researcher Anne Kølbæk Iversen.

In 2021 Heather McCalden won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize with "The Observable Universe", which can be described as a melancholic, masterful and genre-defying memoir. 

Heather McCalden will read a few sections from the book, and after that Anne Kølbæk Iversen will interview the author. In the end also audience members are welcome to join the chat and it will be possible to buy a copy of the book.

About the book:
In the early 1990s, Heather McCalden lost both her parents to AIDS. She was seven when her father died, ten when she lost her mother. Raised by her grandmother, Nivia, she grew up in Los Angeles, also known as ground zero for the virus and its destruction. Years later, she begins researching online the history of HIV as a way to deal with her loss, which leads her to the unexpected realization that the AIDS crisis and the internet developed on parallel timelines. By accumulating whatever fragments she could about both phenomena—images, anecdotes, and scientific entries—alongside her own personal history, McCalden forms a synaptic journey of what happened to her family, one that leads to an equally unexpected discovery about who her parents might have been. Entwining this personal search with a wider cultural narrative of what the virus and virality mean in our times—interrogating what it means to “go viral” in an era of explosive biochemical and virtual contagion—The Observable Universe is at once a history of our viral culture and a prismatic account of grief in the internet age. (source: Penguin books)

About Anne Kølbæk Iversen:
Anne Kølbæk Iversen is a Copenhagen-based researcher, curator, and editor working between academia and the art scene. She holds a PhD from Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University (2019) and has conducted research projects at ARKEN - Museum of Contemporary Art (2019-20) and O-Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art (2024-27). She was the editor of Jane Jin Kaisen - Community of Parting (2020) and has published several articles and exhibition texts on contemporary art

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