Diana, thank you, first, for the invitation to respond to Other Reflexes. At the end of your prelude, I gasped in recognition – at your impulse to explain to your love why your ‘relationship to listening is a little strained’, and at the patience behind the statement that once your love has read what you have written, you will be there, waiting and ready to listen to what they have to say.
Thursday 11 April 2024, 6:30pm
Immersion Room, 7th Floor, NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
Free. Open to the public. Non-NYU guests must RSVP here.
I arrive in Nicosia as I do everywhere, camera ready, wanting to create a visual diary of a city. Not just its permanent or its long-standing features, such as its rivers or coastlines, or its buildings, monuments, or public art, but also its ephemera: graffiti, posters for gigs, plays or exhibitions, players or crowds at football matches, anything else that places it in a particular moment.
Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami: Extended facsimile edition is the Editors’ Choice in the Spring issue of BOMB Magazine, reviewed by Henry Broome. “An account of political struggle and precarious beauty, the book contains hand- and typewritten poems, diary entries, and documentation of assemblages and paintings by Vicuña from the previous ten years. Ehrenberg wrote in his … Continued
In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing 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. All proceeds from this project will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Tuesday 27 February, 2024
5.30–7.30pm
Newnham College Cambridge
Free and open to all. More information/RSVP.
Join Cambridge Visual Culture to celebrate the publication of a new edition of Saborami with Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña.
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