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
Category Is Books
34 Allison Street
Glasgow
Hamishi Farah’s first UK solo exhibition – London UK – is now open at Arcadia Missa until 30 August 2023.
The gallery contains 3 paintings, Roberto Cavalli, Beyoncé, & Whale, and a letter from a London legal firm on behalf of their client seeking to colonise or reappropriate the physical body of Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli.
17 June 2023, 11am-7pm
Presse Books at FormaHQ
140 Great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW
Our book of the month for June is in fact a series – three experimental works commissioned by Francesco Pedraglio as part of The Time Machine, a 2012 Book Works series. The Time Machine asks us to forget about archives and embrace the confusion of the present, in order to consciously experiment with all our … Continued
25 May–8 July 2023
Lungley Gallery
53 Great Portland Street
London, W1W 7LG
Second floor
Opening 25 May, 1–8pm (artist will be present 5–8pm)
31 May 2023, 9–9.45pm
North Cloisters, Wilkins Building
University College, London
Free, no booking required. More info.
Nina Wakeford will be giving a performance around her book, Our Pink Depot: The Gay Underground FLO-N202-236000000-TRK-MST-00002-SAY-HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE-KEN-NIE-BPS (Book Works & Art on the Underground, 2019) as part of the Blueprints of Hope: Celebrating LGBTQ+ London show in which she is also an exhibiting artist.