PAST EVENT
Artists’ Bookmarket 2024
10–11 February
Fruitmarket
Edinburgh
Book Works will be back in Edinburgh for the Artists’ Bookmarket, 10-11 February 2024
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Index Art Book Fair
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
Book of the Month: Proximity Machine by Rosalind Nashashibi
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.
PAST EVENT
Cecilia Vicuña event at Tate Britain
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.
Book Works has a new editor
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
Publishers disengage from Arnolfini following their censorship on Palestine
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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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.
PAST EVENT
Sophia Al-Maria and Tai Shani screening at the Horse Hospital
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
PAST EVENT
Graphic Negotiations #11 – Abeera Kamran
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
PAST EVENT
NATIVITY by Rosa-Johan Uddoh
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,