Join us at Burley Fisher to launch the new edition of small white monkeys: on self-expression, self-help & shame by Sophie Collins. Sophie will be reading from her work, as will Helen Charman who has written a new introduction for the second edition. They will be joined by Rachael Allen, also reading from her work.
Our book of the month for October, with 30% off, is The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and Its Afterlives This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros, are focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative … Continued
Phyllis Christopher’s Dark Room has been shortlisted for the 2022 Paris Photo – Aperture PhotoBook Awards, in the First PhotoBook category. Huge congratulations to Phyllis, the designer Rosen Eveleigh, editor Laura Guy, commissioning editor Lizzie Homersham, and contributors Shar Rednour, Susie Bright and Michelle Tea and everyone who has supported this book so far. See … Continued
Tuesday 27 September, 1pm
Online, free. RSVP.
Graphic Negotiations, our series of online lunchtime talks with designers, is back. In it we invite graphic designers to talk about or present their work in a format or style of their choice – whether a lecture, conversation, visual presentation or something else.
Preview: Thursday 15 September, 6–8pm
Studio Voltaire
1A Nelsons Row
London SW4 7JR
A new film commission by Huw Lemmey, and co–directed with Onyeka Igwe, opens today at Studio Voltaire until 23 January 2023. Ungentle explores the complicated relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality.
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Positioned behind the camera, each of them directs Coates in a filmed restaging of particular episodes from their lives. Following extensive research and discussion, the five short films challenge cultural stigma through an attempt to … Continued
“As commander-in-chief of the introvert resistance, Hamja is on a never-ending tour to overthrow Extrovert Supremacy. This film is just the beginning.” – Tom Dream
A new film by Tom Dream, inspired by Hamja Ahsan’s book, Shy Radicals, is premiering on Nowness this week.
Our Book of the Month for September, with 30% off all month, is UR…A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning, by Marcus Coates.
23 September 2022, 6.30pm
The Photographers’ Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London, W1F 7LW
Free. More details/RSVP
Join artist Mahmoud Khaled and designer Marwan Kaabour as they discuss their collaboration on the new artist book Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost it, co-published by BookWorks and The Mosaic Rooms to accompany Mahmoud Khaled‘s first UK solo exhibition of the same name.
24 September 2022, 6.30–8pm
Good Press
32 St. Andrews St
Glasgow G1 5PD
Free but RSVP
Good Press + Book Works present an event with Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Sophie Collins to launch two new Book Works publications.