Join us for a conversation between Blackout author, Yann Chateigné Tytelman and Gareth Evans
Blackout is a brief, intense, fragmentary account of silence and darkness in visual art, music, literature and philosophy. The writing juxtaposes essayistic observations with an emotionally-charged letter to the father, dead for 10 years, exploring an increasingly elusive bond: a laconic childhood, the son’s rejection of his working-class background and the loss of his father to dementia.
This powerful work offers a brief, intense, and fragmentary meditation on silence and darkness across visual art, music, literature, and philosophy. Blending essayistic reflections with a deeply personal letter to the author’s father—dead for ten years—Blackout traces an increasingly fragile connection marked by a silent childhood, the son’s rejection of his working-class roots, and the father’s decline into dementia.
Yann Chateigné Tytelman is a French author and curator living in Brussels. He has been a curator at the KANAL-Centre Pompidou Brussels, head of the Visual Arts Dept at HEAD in Geneva and chief curator at CAPC in Bordeaux, among other positions. He is a guest lecturer in the Curatorial Studies programme at KASK & Conservatorium, Gent. In 2023, he co-founded Celador, an art space run by a reading group collective in Brussels.
Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film and event producer. He hosts the LRB Screen at Home programme and has curated numerous film / event seasons and festivals across the UK. From 2012-23 he was Whitechapel Gallery’s Adjunct Moving Image Curator.
