Book launch and in-conversation: John Powell-Jones and Jamie Sutcliffe
Event
Book launch and in-conversation: John Powell-Jones and Jamie Sutcliffe
05 April 2025
3-5pm
Castlefield Gallery
This is an in-person event at Castlefield Gallery
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£3, limited free tickets for Castlefield Gallery Associates and anyone on a low income
To mark the launch of artist John Powell-Jones’ latest publication Web Wide World (2025) he will be in-conversation at Castlefield Gallery with writer and curator Jamie Sutcliffe.
Web Wide World (2025) is a 300 page anthology of a comic book Powell-Jones has been releasing over the last 4 years. The publication also includes commissioned texts by Jamie Sutcliffe and Aliyah Hussain as well as documentation of work connected to the comic’s story, including performances at the Lowry, Peste (AD England) and Supernormal festival, an interactive “choose your own adventure” computer game and collaborations with Aliyah Hussain, Lauren De Sa Naylor, SJ Hockett, Jamie Robinson and John Howes.
John Powell-Jones will be signing copies of the book at the event.
More about John Powell-Jones
John Powell-Jones’ practice deals with themes of perception, power structures and personal reality, an ongoing exploration into how warped interpretations of ‘progress and success’ can act to inform our perception of morality.
These ideas are explored through the use of speculative fiction and presented across various mediums including, video, performance, animation and comic books. Taking inspiration from his love of RPGs, body and survival horror, European folklore and science fiction (specifically the sub-genre of cyberpunk).
Powell-Jones’ aim is to form a dialogue between our present and an imagined dystopian future in which the horrors of capitalism and neo-liberal ideology are presented as cyborgs and demons.
More about Jamie Sutcliffe
Jamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and co-director of Strange Attractor Press. His work explores artistic encounters with science fictive fabulation, the politics of gaming, animation and its multiple entanglements with developments in the life sciences, haunted media, and the persistence of myth, all understood as technologies of selfhood. He is the editor of Documents Of Contemporary Art: Magic, published by The Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press.
Image: John Powell-Jones, CYBERJUNK, 2021. Courtesy Jules Lister.
