Our book of the month, with 30% off until the end of September, is Sketches of Universal History Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce.
Sketches of Universal History… presents an interplay of voices, legacies, friendships and influences that make up an art practice.
The Shy Radicals film, based on Hamja Ahsan’s book of the same name, is now available to watch in full on YouTube.
Directed by Tom Dream for Black Dog Films, and featuring Arlo Parks and Art School Girlfriend, the film is a portrait of award-winning artist, activist and author Hamja Ahsan, an
22-24 September, 2023
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
Friday 8 September, 6–8pm
Phillida Reid
10 – 16 Grape Street
London, WC2H 8DY
Free and open to all
Book Works is delighted to present Queen For A Day, the forthcoming book by Deborah-Joyce Holman, now available to preorder at a reduced price.
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).
Our Book of the Month for August 2023, with 30% off all direct orders all month, is Ahmet Öğüt’s Today in History/Tarihte Bugün.
Parodying the format of a regular newspaper column, Today in History/Tarihte Bugün presents a series of drawings and paraphrased stories, extracted from Turkish newspapers from the last four decades. The news stories are sometimes poetic, sometimes overtly political, and sometimes strangely surreal.
13-16 July 2023,
Thursday to Sunday, 10am-5pm
The Printworks, Dublin Castle,
Dame Street, Dublin 2
‘This is your new device. The purpose of this device has been re-defined, but this was gradual, so you did not notice. This device likes you. It excites with simplicity, it cuts, lifts and separates, then hollows out the centre, making ready for the enrichment mechanisms to enter…’
Publishing in September 2023, 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 Sahib grew up.
Saturday 17 June, 7pm
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