A portrait of Jamie Sutcliffe. A man with short brown hair stands outside in front of blooming trees and bushes, wearing a dark jacket over a T-shirt and looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.

Saturday Tour: Jamie Sutcliffe on Caspar Heinemann

28 June 2025

Writer and curator Jamie Sutcliffe leads a talk in response to Caspar Heinemann’s exhibition Sod All.

Drawing upon his own forays into the deep lore of the English countryside and its strange opportunities for encountering folkloric relics, Sutcliffe will recount his year-long journey along the Pilgrim’s Way from Winchester to Canterbury while reading the Grimdark science fiction book series The Horus Heresy (2006-2024).

Sutcliffe’s talk will explore how myth, ritual and fantasy shape cultural and personal narratives. He will consider themes such as the display of relics, ideas of time and scale, homoerotic imagery in speculative fiction, and the political afterlives of sci-fi worldbuilding, opening up a dialogue with the concerns at the heart of Sod All.

  1. Jamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and co-director of Strange Attractor Press. He is the editor of the books Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic, published by The Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press (2021), and Weeb Theory (2023) published by Banner Repeater. His essays, reviews, and interviews have been published internationally by Art Monthly, Art Review, e-flux Criticism, Frieze, The White Review, Rhizome, The Quietus, and Bricks From The Kiln amongst others. He is Associate Lecturer in the MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, and teaches critical theory at University of Northampton. In his own work, Sutcliffe 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: which are all understood as technologies of selfhood.

  2. If you have any questions or need assistance with your visit, please feel welcome to contact us at +44 (0) 20 7622 1294 or info@studiovoltaire.org. Read Studio Voltaire's full access information here.

  3. Credit Robin Silas Christian

Suggested donation £5

Saturday 28 June 2025, 3–3.30 pm