“For all Battles‘ formal experimentations with interview-style Q&As, voice-overs, scripts, sonnets and medical records, Pedraglio is a consistently excellent storyteller. Avenues of possibility for future narrations of historical events, approaches to archives, and models of relationships between the terller and listener open up when considering the methodological approaches in Battles. The insistence on the generative … Continued
‘If Pop Art is about liking things, as Andy Warhol said, then folk art is about loving things’ – Jeremy Deller
Our April Book of the Month, with 30% off, is Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from Around the UK. First published in 2005 and now in its third edition, Folk Archive is a book about the creative life of Britain
The Book Works Spring Sale is now on! Get 50% off a huge range of our available backlist titles for all of March. Featuring titles from Stuart Brisley, Helen Cammock, Brian Catling & Iain Sinclair, Ruth Ewan, Luca Frei, Maria Fusco, Liam Gillick, Stewart Home, Susan Hiller, Bouchra Khalili, Jarett Kobek, Ahmet Ögüt, Katrina Palmer, … Continued
4 March 2023
Reuben Library, British Film Institute
Tickets £5. Book here.
Hamja Ahsan will be in conversation at the BFI on 3 March for screening of the Shy Radicals film, directed by Tom Dream and produced by Black Dog Films. The event is part of the Busting the Bias season on disability and film.
Wednesday 8 March, 6.30pm
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
Free, no booking required. More info.
As part of the public programme around Katrina Palmer’s new exhibition, What’s Already Going On?, Mead Gallery is hosting a late event with music from Bo Ningen and readings from the Arrythmia authors.
25 January 2023, 5.30pm
Brighton CCA, University of Brighton
Free and open to all. Booking required.
Join RESOLVE Collective’s Summer House for a special in conversation between artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh and writer and curator Pacheanne Anderson at the University of Brighton’s CCA.
Opening: Saturday 14 January, 2–5pm
Printed Matter, 231 11th Avenue, NY
Show open 14 January–26 February 2023
Both free, no booking needed. More info.
A touring exhibition of shortlisted books in the 2022 PhotoBook Awards moves to Printed Matter, New York next week, with an opening reception on Saturday 14 January.
Our Book of the Month for January, with 30% off all month, is Make Everything New – A Project on Communism edited by Grant Watson, Gerrie Van Noord and Gavin Everall (Book Works, 2006).
Communism is routinely defined as defeated and its conquest the subject of regular celebration. Caught in the disappointment and negative connotations of the past, it has become all but unthinkable.
Hot off the press for 2023 and available to pre-order now, Black Slit documents a process whereby Katrina Palmer learned to throw a knife, using vibrantly painted clay objects as her targets, as well as high density foam board blocks.
The setting is a studio/office/classroom/bedsit at night – a multi-purpose space which must be
Tuesday, 13 December, 7-8.30pm
Online, free. RSVP.
To mark the publication of Battles, Vol 1 by Francesco Pedraglio, join us online for an evening of readings and discussion with publishers and readers: Book Works, Juan de la Cosa, MA BIBLIOTHÉQUE, MOIST, and Prototype, and Paul Becker, Jen Calleja, Sharon Kivland, Mira Mattar, Francesco Pedraglio, and Adrian Rifkin.