The Game
An interview with Michèle Bernstein, novelist and founding member of the Situationist International
by Gavin Everall
frieze magazine, September 2013
‘We were all Marxists, or course – still are. Totally under the charm of the old man – the genius. Maybe he will become more and more important now.’
The Night and After The Night
by Stewart Home
Art Review September, 2013
To celebrate the publication of the first series of Common Objectives and the start of the second series, we would like to invite you to Tokens of Things Yet to Come, a night of provocations and future propositions, performance and screenings, radio broadcast and dialogue, with Everyone Agrees, Federica Bueti and Jan Verwoert, Victoria Halford and Steve Beard, Nina Power and Inventory.
New dates for our bookbinding courses. We are running two courses (Part 1 & 2), both of which are open to all comers though Part 2 may benefit from some bookbinding experience. If you are interested or would like to know more please email [email protected]
Artists are playing with words again – raiding the archive, bringing the dead back to life, making the living look dead. Quicker than the ever-elusive present, they are forging a practice through words, images, books and ephemera, that begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and re-visit alternative futures.
Again, A Time Machine is a touring exhibition engaging with the circuits of practice that have materialised in the form of books, writing, printed matter, language, spoken word, performative research and archival practice – where each new manifestation of the exhibition reinvents itself and reveals new work as the project moves from venue to venue.
For Torpedo and Kunsthall Oslo, works by Dora García, Stewart Home, Jonathan Monk, Laure Prouvost and Slavs and Tatars, are presented alongside Make the Living Look Dead, a fictional archive from a selection of Book Works artists, including Pavel Büchler, Jeremy Deller, Liam Gillick, Karl Holmqvist, Susan Hiller, Elizabeth Price and Mark Titchner. Back/Forward a selection of visual material from Book Works archive (1984-2011) together with a looped showreel of film and video works compiled by Karen Di Franco, and Rewind an audio compilation from Book Works archive arranged by James Brook, are exhibited in conjunction with artists’ publications and printed matter.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 30 NOVEMBER 2012
Book Works latest catalogue lists forthcoming titles; new, recent and bestselling titles; special editions; and a selected backlist. New announcements include a new guest editor of The Happy Hypocrite, and news of a second series of Common Objectives, guest edited by Nina Power.
Preview 15 September, 3.00-5.00pm
Edinburgh Printmakers
23 Union Street
Edinburgh, EH1 3LR
www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk
Again, A Time Machine, reappears at Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery, with the presentation of Make the Living Look Dead, The Wanderer (The Storage) by Laure Prouvost and A Poster Project by Jonathan Monk.
The Happy Hypocrite is a annual journal for and about experimental art writing. Issue 6, guest edited by Lynne Tillman is due to be published by Book Works, Summer 2013. The Happy Hypocrite is now looking for submissions for this guest edited issue Freedom.
Book Works is pleased to annouce a new series of publications initiated by Book Works with organisations seeking to publish or distribute beyond their limits.
Book Works and Situations would like to invite you to the launch of the first title in this new series:
The Master Plan, Launch Event
Friday 22 September 2012, 12.30–1.30pm
The London Art Book Fair
Zilkha Auditorium
Whitechapel Gallery
Due to our October Bookbinding for Beginners course having filled up so quickly we are running another course in February. Course details are below.
A nine week course in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages. The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio.