The Common Press is excited to welcome Sophie Seita, to the store for an intimate evening of reading on Thursday, 8th February from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm to read and discuss her new book Lessons of Decal, a queer bibliophilic memoir.
- Free event
- You can Bring Your Booze (BYOB). Hot drinks and non-alcoholic drinks will be served
- The space is wheelchair accessible.
Doors open at 6:30 pm and reading from 7 pm.
About Sophie and the book

Sophie Seita is an artist and researcher whose work swims in the muddy waters of language, and explores materiality, gesture, and the speculative potential of the archive. She regularly performs and exhibits work across multiple media, publishes books, makes textiles and graphic scores, leads experimental workshops around voice, touch, translation, and queer performance, and is a Lecturer in the Art Department at Goldsmiths. Her latest book, Lessons of Decal, a queer bibliophilic memoir, is out now from the 87Press.

'How does the bronze wire speak back to the writer who tenders it? What is the role of autobiography in a teaching practice that develops questions through touch, and the theory of that touch? How can vulnerability, in writing, be the place that writing comes from, actually? Sophie Seita's essays are staged at the boundary of body and text, commitment and memory. Lessons of Decal invites an idea of the book as a set of gestures and possibilities, invoking (on every page) the experimental and queer ancestors who 'speak nearby'.'
―Bhanu Kapil
A decal is a copy, a transfer of forms and knowledge, something that sticks and leaves a mark. Lessons of Decal meditates on these transfers, on writing and making art, and on the many voices and art works that teach us how to read and think and be. Using personal reflections, close readings, and poetic interventions, Lessons of Decal gathers a series of passionate and playful essays that treat Form as their side-kick, experimenting with the confusing, unpredictable and pleasurable side of language along the way. Together, they make an impassioned call for nuance, curiosity, messiness, attentiveness, and pleasure. Lessons of Decal is a defence of complexity and confusion, across art and life.