From the Archives: Kirsty Bell (2022)

The ILFD podcast is back! For our final episode of 2023, as many of us head home for the winter holidays, we're listening back to Kirsty Bell discuss her book 'The Undercurrents', an exploration of the city she calls home -- Berlin.
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Kirsty Bell’s 'The Undercurrents' is a story of Berlin, fusing memoir and criticism through a succession of lives and experiences grounded in one historic building by the Landwehr Canal. Both a cultural history of Berlin, and a portrait of artists that have inhabited this beguiling city, Bell’s poetic work, reveals layers of history and the centrality of landscape to the human soul. A book which reflects our contemporary fascination with urban places, and explores ideas of belonging, Kirsty will be in conversation with the critic Helen Meany.
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Kirsty Bell is a British-American writer and art critic, a prolific figure in contemporary art production. She lives in Berlin.
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‘As in other classics of urban discovery, the personal becomes universal, and the past that demands to live in the present is revealed like a shining new reef. As we return, time and again, to the solitary figure at the window’— Iain Sinclair on The Undercurrents
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Presented in association with the Goethe Institut in Ireland at the 2022 International Literature Festival Dublin.