UH HUH HER

An unnamed, female narrator travels through school, then art school, then art school teaching jobs, finding or fashioning "the selves of herself" via encounters with PJ Harvey, the ghosts of Ann Quin, Susan Sontag, and a mansplaining Analyst that she first encounters in her grandparents' garden. Both a love letter to creative life, and a requiem for all that is lost in its pursuit, UH HUH HER asks is it possible to record—and retain—our experiences of being on the outside? Or can such stories only exist within the institutions that shape them? Rachel Cattle is an artist, writer, and co-editor of JOAN. Previous publications include the sonic poem La a dybird (Ma Bibliotheque, 2019), and auto-fictive text/score Witch Dance (Centre for Useless Splendour, 2017). A member of experimental sound collective BxNT, and art-writing collective We Are Publication, Rachel has broadcast, exhibited, performed and collaborated with a number of UK arts organisations including Camden Arts Centre, Tate, and the ICA in London. She holds a Contemporary Art PhD from Kingston University, and an MA in creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London. UH HUH HER is her first full-length work.