Fleur Pierets : Protest Art, Grief, & Social (in)Justice

The Common Press are delighted to be hosting internationally renowned author, artist, and activist Fleur Pierets as she presents her new memoir, Julian.

Fleur Pierets is an award-winning performance artist, writer, speaker and LGBTQ+ activist whose work balances between photography and theory, performance and non-fiction.

Together with her wife, Julian P. Boom she founded Et Alors? Magazine, , in which they published their conversations with queer musicians, visual artists, writers and performers by whom they were inspired.

In 2017, Fleur and Julian started 22 The Project, a performance art piece in which the couple would marry in every country that legalized same-sex marriage. There were 22 countries when they launched the project  – since then, the number of countries has grown to 28. Fleur and Julian married in New York, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Paris. After the 4th wedding, Julian was diagnosed with brain cancer. She died on January 22, 2018.

This talk will cover Protest Art, grief, and social (in)justice.

The keynote is an invitation and a dialogue about responsibility and how you can effect change in the world through positive communication.

Date: 27th October

Time: from 6:30pm

The talk will last approximately 1 hour and will be followed by a signing in the bookshop.

Please note: this event will be taking place in our downstairs events space and is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.