New bookbinding and boxmaking evening classes
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Come and join our Boxmaking and Bookbinding workshops starting next week. Boxmaking for Beginners runs on Monday evenings from 16th September for 8 weeks, and Bookbinding for Beginners runs on Wednesday evenings from 18th September for 9 weeks. You will learn how to make beautiful books and boxes which you can recreate in your home or studio with the use of minimal tools.
Click on the links below for more information or contact [email protected] to sign up.
Boxmaking for Beginners (starts 16 September).
Bookbinding for Beginners (starts 18 September).
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September Book of the Month – The Council of Spent
Our Book of the Month, with 30% off throughout September 2024, is The Council of Spent by Inventory.
Capitalism continues to disempower us, with its corrosive mantra that it provides the best of all possible worlds and that we must stay silent and accept its violent side-effects as unfortunate necessity: we are told to tolerate its hereditary and dynastic aspects; to keep our faith in the humane reformist role of the state; to trust in the electoral process and to turn a blind eye to unrepresentative lobbyists and private interests.
We are told that technological change alone will bring the deleterious effects of profit and loss to heel. And so it appears, that unless we are driven to the brink of extinction, there will be no collective counter-attack of lasting value. This is the counsel of spent, asking how far we must be pushed as a species, as a planet, and how much more must be tolerated in the interests of ‘survival’ before we awake and understand that there is no natural evolution under capitalism?
Another end of the world is possible.
Formed in 1995, Inventory was a loosely associated group of writers, artists and theorists, currently guided by the efforts of two artists/heretics, Adam Scrivener and Paul Claydon, who advance a practical and theoretical notion of what they call ‘fierce sociology’.
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The Wastes reviewed in Art Monthly
Roy Claire Potter’s debut novel, The Wastes, is reviewed by Lauren Velvick in the September issue of Art Monthly. It’s rare and welcome for reviewers to consider the book as a whole object in this way – thanks to Lauren and Art Monthly for this comprehensive reading, and shout out to Traven T. Croves for the design
Early in the novel, in a section written in second person, as if part of an inner monologue during a moment of trauma and paralysis, the protagonist states, by way of explaining her mannerisms, that ‘there is something aback of everything. It webs outward and I fly into it every time. I get caught up in the world’. This mode of experience also describes how I approached the reading of the book as a whole: cover, sleeve, dedication, story, epilogue and further research. Given the explicitly experimental scope of this artist’s book, the spaces around it and what you find in them are as relevant as the central text itself.
The full review is subscriber only – order the magazine here.
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What Did You Do…? in Venice
Friday 13 September 2024, 5pm.
Index Art Book Fair
Calle Buccari 3, S.Elena, Venice, Italy
Free & open to all
Book Works’ Director Gavin Everall will be part of an event at the Index Art Book Fair in Venice this week alongside a member of the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) who have been campaigning against the inclusion of the Israeli pavilion in this year’s Bienniale. Gavin will be presenting our fundraising poster project for Palestine, What Did You Do…? The project features new editions by artists including Jeremy Deller, Rosalind Nashashibi, Katrina Palmer, Charlie Prodger and many more, and are all still available to buy from our shop, with all proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians.
What Did You Do…? in Venice; ; January 1970;
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