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In 2021, we put out a call for a new open submission series, Arrhythmia, guest-edited by artist Katrina Palmer. The call asked for work which explored ideas of being out of joint with the predominant social order, whether through disrupted trajectories, physical displacement, or political dissonance. We were particularly interested in experimental work that articulated a discontinuous sense of identity, and writing, or in combinations of writing and images in which the rhythm of the text is self-consciously questioned.
We received over 200 submissions, and commissioned four new works by Andrew E. Colarusso, Kamwangi Njue, Roy Claire Potter and Alice Walter. We are delighted to announce that the first two books, The Wastes and The Medium, are now on press and available to pre-order. See below for more information on each title and links to order.
Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer, living in London. She is the author of The Dark Object (2010, third edition 2023), The Fabricators Tale (2014), End Matter (2015) and Black Slit (2023), all published by Book Works. She has exhibited extensivelyat Tate Britain, the Hayward Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and the Henry Moore Institute. In 2014, she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, and was shortlisted for the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award in 2015. She is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and the current National Gallery Artist in Residence.
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The Wastes
Roy Claire Potter
After the death of her mother a woman decides to visit a familiar strip of rural upland, darkly identified on the South Pennines Ordinance Survey map as: The Waste. As she moves between trains, shunted by public encounters and haunted by past bar jobs, damp bedsits and a press shot of Vanessa Redgrave smoking in the bath, found slipped between the pages of her mother’s diary, the threshold between her past, present and future self dissolves. Fringe images she has neither designed nor authored begin to steer her toward grid reference 3499, where underfoot the semi-solid mud turns with worms and ants.
The Wastes is published as part of Arrhythmia, a series curated for Book Works by Katrina Palmer.
Roy Claire Potter works between performance and experimental art writing with recent work commissioned by Tate Britain and Tate Publishing, Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3, Cafe OTO and Counterflows, and Primary. They are Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University.
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The Medium
Alice Walter
‘This is a story of our life, it’s about how we died and learnt to survive, by taking messages for the dead. What do they call us? Medium. The Medium.’
To read The Medium is to be submerged in a stream of consciousness populated by uninvited voices from the underworld. Animated, urgent, and brutally propulsive, this cacophony of competing narratives begins to upset the boundary between the living and the dead. The Medium is an alchemical novel, shimmering with insight from the depths of a black lake.
The Medium is published as part of Arrhythmia, a series curated for Book Works by Katrina Palmer.
Alice Walter is an artist, writer and medium – living and working in the UK. She has a BA in Fine Art, Film and Video from Central Saint Martins, UAL and a MFA from The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University. Her practice combines collage, psychosexual sculpture, VHS and shamanism. Through these disciplines, Alice creates surreal and sensory spaces that open channels for the unseen.
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What did you do… (2024)
What did you do… (2024) is a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3 posters. Any proceeds from this project will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Posters are now available by Jeremy Deller, Dora García, Karl Holmqvist, Marianne Keating, Rosalind Nashashibi, Katrina Palmer and Charlie Prodger, in various editions priced from £10–75 (+VAT).
Other participating artists will include: Hamja Ahsan, Banu Cennetoğlu, Marcus Coates, Jesse Darling, Falgoush Collective, Fehras Publishing Practices with Nancy Naser Al Deen and Sina Ahmadi, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Prem Sahib, Tai Shani, Sofia Niazi, Anne Tallentire, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, and Cecilia Vicuña.
The first poster was produced by Book Works to mark the workplace day of action to #standwithgaza, and is still available to buy in our shop. Gaza, Cease Fire Now (pictured) by Rosalind Nashashibi is a free poster designed by Sara De Bondt, which comes with any purchase of Gaza and is released on International Women’s Day 2024.
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