Just a Lump of Some Black Substance: Tom McCarthy in conversation with Clémentine Deliss

Tom McCarthy, who was guest writer at the Weltkulturen Museum in 2013, talks to Clémentine Deliss about his work and the interface between literature, anthropology and art. Tom McCarthy is a British author, born in 1969. He lives and works in London. His first two novels, Remainder and Men in Space, were published to international acclaim. Remainder was the recipient of the Believer Book Award 2008. His latest novel, C, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010. In 2013 Mc Carthy received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. Dr. Clémentine Deliss, director of the Weltkulturen Museum, studied contemporary art and social anthropology in Vienna, Paris and London. Her PhD focused on the relationship between ethnographic collections and the institutional development of the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. From 1998–99 she was Guest Professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Between 2003–10 she ran the long-term research project Future Academy in Edinburgh, Senegal, India, the US, Australia and Japan. As an international art laboratory, it investigated the development of new interdisciplinary models of future arts institutions. Between 1996–2007, she published the artists’ and writers’ organ ›Metronome‹ that was presented twice at documenta in Kassel. „Just a Lump of Some Black Substance: Tom McCarthy in conversation with Clémentine Deliss” Thursday, 6th November, 7pm Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, Aula In English. Free. http://lectures-staedelschule.blogspot.de