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.
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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
Wednesday 13 December, 1pm
Online. Book a free place here.
Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book
Thursday 7 December, 3pm and 7pm
Fellows’ Drawing Room,
Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge
Pay what you can. Book here.
The Women’s Art Collection is delighted to present NATIVITY, a performance by Rosa-Johan Uddoh that offers a history of Black performance in the West,
Sunday 3 December, 4 – 6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London
Free, booking required.
Poetry, readings, screenings and listening sessions with a closing performance by Elaine Mitchener
Wednesday 15 November 2023, 1pm
Online. Free – book a place here.
Book Works sees graphic design as central to the production of artist books.