Auras and Levitations by Susan Hiller is our Book of the Month for May. To mark the occasion we have been looking through the Book Works archives at some of the other projects we worked on with Susan Hiller, including By Night, a special edition box of miniaturised postcards featuring images of the sea taken at night.
Praneet Soi’s new book, Anamorphosis, is reviewed in the May issues of Art Monthly and Art Asia Pacific. Ophelia Lai in Art Asia Pacific writes: Anamorphosis is simultaneously sweeping and granular, breaking up allusive collages with strips of text on the experiences of Palestinians the artist encountered. Soi never omits the particularities of his subjectivity … Continued
Auras and Levitations by Susan Hiller is our Book of the Month, with 30% off direct orders for the whole of May 2021. Order it now. Susan Hiller’s artist’s book pays homage to two images of aspiration, fantasy and sublimation: Yves Klein’s Leap Into The Void, and Marcel Duchamp’s Portrait of Dr. R. Dumouchel. Both … Continued
We were blown away by the response to the Dark Room Kickstarter campaign, which exceeded its target and raised £20,649. Thank you to everyone who backed or shared it. Design for the book is being finalised, and it will be going to press soon. Meanwhile, production of the handmade gelatin prints is under way and … Continued
In 2020 MAP commissioned The Self-Illuminating Pen – a series of letters by Sarah Tripp and specially commissioned films by Isobel Lutz-Smith, as a companion to her new book, Guitar! (Book Works 2021).
The April issue of Art Monthly is just out and it features an excellent review by Frank Wasser of The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and its Afterlives.
Our Printed Matter Classroom event with Phyllis Christopher, Laura Guy, Lizzie Homersham and Michelle Tea is now available to watch back.
We are very excited to be launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of Phyllis Christopher’s Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003. Dark Room will bring together for the first time a rare collection of lesbian erotic and protest photographs, taken by Phyllis Christopher…
The London Transport Museum has published an overview of Nina Wakeford’s OUR PINK DEPOT THE GAY UNDERGROUND FLO-N202-236000000- TRK-MST-00002-SAY- HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE- KEN-NIE-BPS, which we co-published with Art on the Underground in 2019
At the 2021 Printed Matter Virtual Book Fair, Book Works will present an online event to present Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest 1988-2003 – the first ever collection of Phyllis Christopher’s trailblazing photography of lesbian erotic life and political struggle.