What did you do… (2024) is a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza that overshadows all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3 posters. Any proceeds from this project will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Our February Book of the Month, with 30% off, is Clunie Reid’s Faker Drinker Soldier Heiress (2010).
Drawing on imagery from advertising, the internet, magazines and her own drawings and photographs, Clunie Reid’s photo-collages appropriate and violently represent the banality of everyday images.
10–11 February
Fruitmarket
Edinburgh
Book Works will be back in Edinburgh for the Artists’ Bookmarket, 10-11 February 2024
18–21 January
kurimanzutto
Cuidad de México
More info.
For its tenth anniversary edition, Book Works will again have our titles on sale at the wonderful Index Art Book Fair in Mexico City
Our Book of the Month for January 2024 is Rosalind Nashashibi’s Proximity Machine. Get it with 30% off until 31 January.
Proximity Machine presents a series of static ‘films’ made from found and re-photographed images collated from a variety of sources.
Saturday 24 February, 2024, 1–5pm
Tate Britain Reading Rooms
Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
Free but booking required. Book here.
Cecilia Vicuña created Saborami in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in Chile.
At the end of 2023 we said goodbye to our outgoing editor, Lizzie Homersham, who leaves us to focus on their PhD and will be much missed. Keep up with Lizzie via their Teleportations Substack. However we are simultaneously delighted to welcome Hannah Regel, who joins Book Works as our new editor! Hannah is the author … Continued
We, Book Works and Hajar Press, are dismayed by the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts’ censorship of Palestinian creative voices through its cancellation of two Bristol Palestine film festival events in November 2023.
Join the Readers Club or give a year’s subscription as a gift!
The Book Works Readers Club is a great way to support the work we do and to build your own library of artist books. For just £5/month or £50/year you’ll receive a copy of everything we publish as soon as it is ready.
Wednesday 20 December, 7.30pm
The Horse Hospital,
Colonnade, Bloomsbury
London, WC1N 1JD
Tickets/more info.
A screening of excerpts from Sophia Al-Maria’s Beast Type Song and Tai Shani’s My Bodily Remains