In the second of our dispatches from A Room for London – a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella The Heart of Darkness – we hear from novelist Jeanette Winterson.
For four days every month, as part of a year-long project by Artangel, a writer will stay in the boat, which is moored on top of London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, tasked only with writing an essay on the theme of London, rivers and/or Conrad. Winterson's essay, A Place Before the Flood, is a meditation on her 24-hours perched above the Thames.
During the year we are live-streaming a series of concerts from A Room for London. You can see the second in the series, by Heiner Goebbels, here.
