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New title: Queen For A Day by Deborah-Joyce Holman

Book Works is delighted to present Queen For A Day, the forthcoming book by Deborah-Joyce Holman, now available to preorder at a reduced price.

Queen for a Day is Deborah-Joyce Holman’s debut publication, staging a conversation between two of the artist’s films, Moment and Moment 2 (2022), and the work of cinema verité they take as a primary material: Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason (1967).

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August Book of the Month: Today in History/Tarihte Bugün

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.

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July Book of the Month: The Unspeakable Freedom Device (2015)

‘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…’

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New title: That Fire Over There by Prem Sahib

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.

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London, UK – new solo show by Hamishi Farah

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.

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June Book(s) of the Month: The Time Machine

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

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