Studio Social

A series of artist talks that share one recent work or project with time for Q&A. The talk series is focused on profiling the work of artists for whom both people and place are central to their practice.

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For the second Studio Social, we are delighted to welcome artist and writer Ania Bas. For her ‘one work’, Ania will discuss her debut novel Odd Hours, published by Welbeck in June 2022:  a whip-smart social comedy for those of us who feel that life is a game where someone else has stolen the rules. 

This event will comprise a 20 minute talk by Ania, a short in-conversation with Pier Projects team and time for Q&A.

About Odd Hours:

Meet Gosia.

She's a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy.

Between shifts in a well-lit budget supermarket and nights in a badly lit Zone 3 flatshare, she spends hours inside her own head. That is, until a chance encounter snaps her out of her reverie.

Propelled into a series of mediocre jobs, lousy dates and even worse sex, the prickly yet warm-hearted Gosia begins her excavation of the 'perfect' life so many dream of.

After all, could there be more to it than she imagined?

Raw, funny, mean and moving, Odd Hours is a razor-sharp social comedy about human connection, unexpected happiness, and the many forms of love.

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'A hymn to normality and an absolute joy to read' - Sarah May

'Compelling, surprising, funny' - Kate Sawyer

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Ania Bas is an artist and writer. 

Through her practice Ania explores how narratives shape understanding, mythology and knowledge of places and people. Her work takes diverse forms of text, events, walks, performances, useful objects and publications. She creates situations that support dialogue and question existing frameworks of participation. She investigates ways of working, making and thinking together. 

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Studio Social is a series of artist talks profiling the work of artists for whom both people and place are central to their practice.