Roller Book Club

Over the last fifteen years we have been evolving our practice. Our work stands on the shoulders of many who have come before us.

We have drawn from a wide range of fields ranging from anthropology, biography, history, journalism, philosophy, social science and a whole load of books that defy easy categorisation.

The Roller Book Club invites you to explore with us key texts that have rewired our minds and hearts.

We invite you to read along with us and join us for a discussion every six weeks. You can sign up to each book club event below, and follow along on Twitter #rollerbookclub.

Book #2: Second-Hand Time: The Last Of The Soviets

Author: Svetlana Alexaivich

Date: 1st May 2018

Location: (TBC) Oxford, UK

Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexaivich uses the power of individuals' stories to provide a deeper understanding of the end of the Soviet Union. Alexaivich takes a phenomenological approach to viewing complex social dynamics and constructs.  Roller's work applies a similar approach to understand a system. The practice invites a natural unveiling of a persons narrative that then reveal both past and present themes at play in the system. The Last Of The Soviets shows the Soviet system from a different perspective, one told through life story and that captures events that are often overlooked from the outside.