5 Caledonian Road
Sat 22 Aug · 19:00
Come and celebrate the first pamphlet from Gauze Bonnet Press! This pamphlet is a free-wheeling interdisciplinary exploration of rubber, taking readers from Bangkok fetish bars to smallholder plantations in Vietnam, looking through history from European colonisation of the homelands of latex to Victorian British moral panics about sex toys made from the material. Kaisa interweaves academic research with first hand accounts from her research trips and poetry both by herself and and others. Throughout this journey, she contemplates the feminised life of rubber. She speaks to women in the industry, considers the history of rubber dildos, finds womanhood in the poems of Vietnamese rubber laborers, and wonders what it means to milk mother earth. This work is born out of notes from her ongoing research project and artistic collaboration with Bart Seng Wen Long, Rubber Dreams of its Lifetime. Kaisa Saarinen is a former feral farmgirl based in London. She writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction, often blending them together in hybrid forms. Her books include the novel Weather Underwater (2023), and short-form collections Maitonaut (2024) and Voideuse (2022). In close collaboration with Bart Seng Wen Long, she is leading the research-based art project Rubber Dreams of its Lifetime.’ Reading and performing alongside Kaisa we have: Bart Seng Wen LongCat Feliciano& Gabrielle Sicam This is a free event, but please RSVP below! Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Insta (Opens in new window) Insta Like this:Like Loading…
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.