BOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS with Marc Garrett at Housmans, London

Name: BOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS with Marc Garrett at Housmans, London
Start: 2025-11-19T18:45:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-20T21:45:00+00:00
Location: 5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DX, United Kingdom

Schedule

Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 06:45 pm to Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 09:45 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DX, United Kingdom | London, EN

Join us for an exciting evening to celebrate Marc Garrett's latest book and welcome Cassie Thornton, who wrote the foreword for Feral Class.
Doors Open 6:45 pm, Event Starts 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Wednesday 19th November 2025
Housmans Bookshop. 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DX
All are welcome. Please book in advance to secure a place.
https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-feral-class-with-mark-garrett/
Feral Class is Marc Garrett’s deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration of his early years, chronicling his journey as a working-class artist navigating a world that often rejects them. Through humorous, vivid storytelling and incisive critique, Garrett explores how his upbringing shaped his identity, forging a path that defied societal expectations. How can one survive, let alone thrive, as part of what Garrett describes as the feral class: a group of individuals who, like him, exist outside traditional institutions and thrive in the margins, using resourcefulness and rebellion to carve out their own artistic spaces?
Weaving together personal memories, political reflections, and the struggles of working-class artists, Feral Class challenges the elitism of the art world. It celebrates the radical potential of those who refuse to conform. Garrett’s narrative is both an intimate self-portrait and a rallying cry for artists who refuse to be tamed. Passionate, unfiltered, and insightful, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersections of class, creativity, and resistance.
Bio: Marc Garrett’s life and work embody the intersection of art, technology, and social change, shaped by his working-class upbringing and a commitment to challenging institutional hierarchies. Growing up in Southend-on-Sea, he explored creative expression through street art, pirate radio, and early online activism before co-founding Furtherfield in 1996 with Ruth Catlow, an artist-led community that resisted the commercialisation of the art world. Despite personal challenges, including a cancer diagnosis in 2022, Garrett continues to focus on ideas and questions that acknowledge and engage working-class and feral-class contexts as a springboard for more extensive dialogues on creating conditions for social change across art, technology, and ecology.
Marc will be joined in conversation with the imitable Cassie Thornton. Cassie is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. She employs social practices, including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and “healing modalities” such as hypnosis and yoga, to identify soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. Cassie has invented a grassroots alternative credit reporting service for survivors of gentrification, has hypnotised hedge fund managers, finger-painted with the grime found inside banks, donated cursed paintings to profiteering bankers, and taught feminist economics to yogis (and vice versa). Her 2020 book, The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future, is available from Pluto Press.