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.
Practice Makes Perfect author Rosa-Johan Uddoh will be appearing alongside an excellent array of artists, performers and activities at the Jupiter Rising festival this weekend (26-28 August) at the Jupiter Artlands outside Edinburgh. The wonderful Lighthouse Books will also be there with a bookshop, and will have copies of Practice Makes Perfect. More information and tickets here.
Wed 7 September 2022, 7pm Whitgift Centre AtriumCroydon, London Join Turf Projects for the premiere of a new artist film by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Cultural Field in the Whitgift Centre Atrium, Croydon on 7 September. Cultural Field is developed by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, directed and produced by Louis Brown and Jos Bitelli (East London Cable) and performed … Continued
Sunday 21 August, 3-5pm
Free & open to all.
Folsom Street Community Center
145 9th Street, Suite 105
San Francisco, CA 94103
Please note masks are required
Dark Room by Phyllis Christopher is coming home to San Francisco with a very special launch at the Folsom Street Community Centre on 21 August! It’s the first and possibly only IRL event with all of the contributors
Our book of the month for August 2022, with 30% off all month, is The Fabricator’s Tale by Katrina Palmer (2014). This meta-narrative is punctuation by short, abstract, and often disturbingly violent stories, featuring nameless characters that expose the repressed tension between the animate and inanimate, the sick malaise of contemporary life, and the cracking … Continued
Book Works and Katrina Palmer are delighted to announce four new commissions for the Arrhythmia series, following an open call in 2021 which received over 200 submissions. Guest-edited by artist Katrina Palmer, Arrhythmia is a new series that offers an opportunity for artists and writers whose work explores ideas of being out of joint with the predominant … Continued
Wednesday 13 July, 6pm-9pm
The Bower
Brunswick Park
London SE5 7FH
Free and open to all
The Book Works Summer Sale is now on. Almost all books (except 2022 releases) are half-price in July! Featuring recent titles from Stuart Brisley, Helen Cammock, Brian Catling & Iain Sinclair, Ruth Ewan, Luca Frei, Maria Fusco, Liam Gillick, Stewart Home, Bouchra Khalili, Jarett Kobek, Mike Nelson, Ahmet Ögüt, Katrina Palmer, Francesco Pedraglio, Bridget Penney, … Continued
Hamja Ahsan, author of Shy Radicals, is participating in this year’s documenta fifteen, which opened this month in Kassel. Ahsan’s Halal Fried Chicken signs around Kassel and Documenta venues, mapping aspects of Islamic history, diasporic urban fast food subcultures, colonial histories and futures of liberation. The signs are accompanied by a series of online Islamic sermons, also … Continued