Intermedial Journey in Search of the Bounty Mutineers
with French writer and artist Sébastien Laurier
When: Tuesday 31st January 2023, 17:15 – 18:00
Where: University of Edinburgh, 40 George Square, Room LG.11 (Lower Ground)
Sébastien Laurier is a writer, actor, theatre director and graphic novel scriptwriter. His work focuses on personal and poetical quests and enquiries which eventually become artistic objects, books, plays and exhibitions. These concrete utopias are an ode to travel, encounters but also intimate explorations (www.sebastienlaurier.com).
He will tell us about his experience of traveling to the Pitcairn Islands (South Pacific) in search of the traces left by, and ghosts of the Bounty mutineers in the eighteenth century, which led to the publication of his 2017 book La Bounty à Pitcairn. Mais que sont les révoltés devenus ? (Editions Zeraq). Sébastien Laurier is currently in the process of adapting this text into a series of graphic novels published by Editions Glénat in France and he will share with us his reflexions on the joys and challenges of intermedial adaptation.
PITCAIRN, graphic novels (see the trailer)
LA BOUNTY A PITCAIRN, book (see a presentation)
MAIS QUE SONT LES REVOLTES DU BOUNTY DEVENUS?, theatre (see the trailer)
Event organised as part of the ‘Intermediality’ Research Strand at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the Institut Français d’Ecosse:
Contact: F.Arribert-Narce@ed.ac.uk
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