THE COLLOQIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents

A GUPSHOP WITH BISHAKH SOM 

Gupshop is a Hindi word for gossip, rumour, idle talk.

Gupshop is also the name of a new Colloquium series in which guests from the world of art, literature and freemasonry play and discuss the records that have made or unmade them. Records for keeps. 3am records....

Bishakh Som will be talking about, among others, My Bloody Valentine, Geeta Dutt, Kate Bush, Jasmine Sandlas, Bauhaus. 

And Portishead anarcho punks Chaos UK. 

BISHAKH SOM is an Indian-American trans femme visual artist, author and teacher. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Boston Review and The Georgia Review, amongst other publications. Her graphic novel Apsara Engine (The Feminist Press) is the winner of a  2020 L.A. Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel and a 2021 Lambda Literary Award winner for Best LGBTQ Comics. About her graphic memoir Spellbound (Street Noise Books), McKenzie Wark wrote, "It shows how we may have to learn a little of the art of living before we will know how to make art, and that if the truth of our life is being transgender, it is never too late - or too early - to come out to onself and the world." 

THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE (est. 2007): falling and laughing...

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