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Forthcoming from Book Works

Hello,
We’re trialling a press newsletter to let editors, writers and programmers know about upcoming books. You’re recieving this email because you’ve previously indicated to me that this would be welcome – if it no longer is, or if I’ve made a mistake, please let me know by replying to this email and I’ll remove you. This will only be an occasional letter – every couple of months at most. These four titles are all our new releases for the remainder of 2023.
If you would like a review copy of any of these titles, or to profile any of the artists,or have any questions, get in touch ([email protected] /+44 7779 251006).
Cheers,
Tamar

That Fire Over There

Prem Sahib

Publication date: October 2023
Price: £22
ISBN: 9781912570188
Extent: 240pp
Designer: Martin McGrath Studio
Contributors: Sita Balani, Milovan Farronato, Reba Maybury & Ashkan Sepahvand

That Fire Over There takes fire as a metaphor for ideas around queer attachment, proximity, and personal and collective transformation. It also excavates the history of a real fire which in 1981 destroyed the Hambrough Tavern – a contested site symbolic of provocation and conflict against far-right groups in Southall, west London, where Prem Sahib grew up.

A rich body of images – documenting artworks which explore gay cruising, selected from family photo collections, and displaying ephemera from the archive of Prem Sahib’s uncle Kamaljit Sahib, a notable activist in Southall of the 1980s and 90s – combines with extracts from a dream diary and exchanges with family members. Added to this are newly commissioned texts and correspondence by Sita Balani, Milovan Farronato, Reba Maybury and Ashkan Sepahvand, engaging with emotional themes such as grief, shame and loss. Prem Sahib’s own writing makes connections between interlocutors and carves out a space for otherwise disparate material to coexist, all in the pursuit of questioning ideas around freedom, sexuality, and intergenerational experiences of place and politics.

Another Magazine profile. 

 


Queen for a Day

Deborah-Joyce Holman

Publication date: October 2023
Price: £20
ISBN: 9781912570287
Extent: 132pp
Format: soft cover
Designer: Maeve Redmond
Contributers: Steven Cairns, Maryam Kazeem, Gboyega Odubanjo and Okwui Okpokwasili.

Queen for a Day is Deborah-Joyce Holman’s debut publication, staging a conversation between two of the artist’s films, Moment and Moment 2 (2022), and the work of cinema verité they take as a primary material: Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason (1967). One ‘queen’ of this title is Jason Holliday, the Black gay male subject at the centre of Clarke’s film with whom Holman wants to act in solidarity. Finding Jason captured by the extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works to reproduce his words, rather than his image, placing them as looping samples of script in the mouths of two performers, Imani Mason Jordan (Moment) and Rebecca Bellantoni (Moment and Moment 2).

Following this, a conversation between Deborah-Joyce Holman and Cédric Fauq elaborates on Holman’s method, and suggests that there are parallels to be drawn between the cycle of oppression in which Jason is trapped by Clarke, and the way in which the contemporary circulation of images of Black people suffering triggers a retraumatising process of spectacularisation. Newly commissioned essays by Olamiju Fajemisin, Noémi Michel, and Francis Whorrall-Campbell, offer close analysis of Moment and Moment 2, opening up diverse ways of understanding Holman’s aesthetic strategies and politics of representation via film history, decolonial and queer theory.


Show Me The World Mister

Ayo Akingbade

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Publication date: November 2023
Price: £20
ISBN: 9781912570287
Extent: 132pp
Format: soft cover
Designer: Maeve Redmond
Contributors: Steven Cairns, Maryam Kazeem, Gboyega Odubanjo and Okwui Okpokwasili.

Show Me The World Mister is Ayo Akingbade’s first publication, developing work from her touring exhibition of the same name. Centring two films, The Fist and Faluyi, shot on location in Nigeria, the book builds on Akingbade’s cinematic interrogations of history and place, addressing interwoven histories of industrialisation and family.

Originally shot on 35mm film, The Fist is an intimate portrait of a modernist style factory – the first Guinness brewery built outside of Ireland and the UK, located in Nigeria, 12 miles from the centre of Lagos on the Ikeja Industrial Estate. Faluyi follows protagonist Ife as she embarks on a meditative journey tracing familial legacy and mysticism within ancestral land. Shot on 16mm film in the Idanre Hills – a UNESCO World Heritage site in Ondo State, the birthplace of Akingbade’s parents – the film is an introspective contemplation of the artist’s own personal relationship with Nigeria, and her sense of the future.

Featuring diary entries, behind the scenes images from locations in Lagos and Idanre, as well as exhibition and installation views, Show Me The World Mister documents the processes and ideas behind Ayo Akingbade’s work. With written contributions by Steven Cairns, Maryam Kazeem, Gboyega Odubanjo and Okwui Okpokwasili.


Saborami: An expanded facsimile edition

Cecilia Vicuña

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“One of the great socialist works of the 20th century” – Luke Roberts & Amy Tobin

Author: Cecilia Vicuña
Title: Saborami: An expanded facsimile edition
Publication date: 1 March 2024
Price: £22
ISBN: 9781912570270
Extent: 224pp
Designer: James Langdon

Cecilia Vicuña created Saborami in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in Chile. Combining poetry, journal entries, documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings, the book was published in Devon, England in an edition of 250 hand-made copies by the artist-led Beau Geste Press. It was one of the first artistic responses to the violence of the fascist junta.

In recent years, Vicuña has gained increasing renown, winning the Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2022 Venice Bienniale and with major shows/installations at the Guggenheim (2022); and Tate Modern (2023). Saborami is one of her most important works, made at a turning point in her life and career, and reverberating through to the present day. Though the book is highly regarded, it has also been hard to access. This new, expanded facsimile edition remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance.

 Years ahead of her time, Vicuña outlines an eco-socialist and feminist vision in the face of defeat.


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Established in 1984, we are dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects. Book Works consists of a publishing and commissioning department; and a studio specialising in binding, box-making and multiples.

STUDIO

The Book Works Studio offers a specialist bespoke service for a range of clients, from artists, designers, galleries, and businesses. We provide binding solutions, develop prototypes and specialise in unique book artworks, boxes, and portfolios. We have an extensive archive, and offer tailored educational events, and bookbinding courses. The Studio generates income from clients and is self-sufficient.

PUBLISHING

Book Works Publishing is dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects and include publishing, a lecture and seminar programme, exhibitions, the development of an online archive, and artists’ surgeries and workshops.

Our audience is vital to our work. The process of engaging and developing our audience is initiated with our commissioning programme, and driven through all aspects of our activities, particularly our public programme of events, our workshops, artists’ surgeries and education activities, and through our interest in collaborating with other organisations and libraries. Our programme of commissions is diverse, and reflects our commitment not just to work with cultural workers from all backgrounds, but to invest in networks and programmes that engage, and develop and create new artistic voices.

Recent Commissions

Includes new projects with: Ayo Akingbade, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Bouchra Khalili, Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Samia Malik, Harun Morrison, Sofia Niazi, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert, Prem Sahib, Derica Shields, and Cecilia Vicuña. Our current Open Submission is Arrhythmia, guest edited by Katrina Palmer, and has commissioned new work from Andrew Colarusso, Roy Claire Potter, Kawangi Njue, and Alice Walter.

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