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…France; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum, New York; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art,…
…Contemporary Popular Art from the UK, presents a personal selection of objects and actions, containing elements of ambition, humour, pathos and resistance, which present us with invaluable evidence of creative…
…their emotion and subject of contestation. The texts, the contributors, the ideas, the aesthetics, and the arguments disagree, and so do we. Ordered against order, Bad Feelings attempts to manifest…
…material and personal narratives about abolition, that no one gets anything significant done by themselves.’ –Lubaina Himid About the artist: Lubaina Himid, born 1954 in Zanzibar, Tanzania, is a contemporary…
Extract from The Mu Particle In Communism by Wu Ming, from Make Everything New – A Project On Communism. Screen Print printed by Calvert….
…Tom Holert, and is designed by Peter Maybury. Following the American sociologist C. Wright Mills’ suggested practice of filing the ideas that compel you, then periodically unpacking, shuffling and spreading…
…× 235mm; designed by A Practice for Everyday Life. Book Works would like to thank Bouchra Khalili and all of the contributors to this book, Phillipe Tancelin for permission to…
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…Toronto (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2012); and Jeu de Paume, Paris (2012). Robert’s performances have also been presented at Tate Britain, London; MoMA, New York and Migros Museum,…
…its activities up to 1996. It is also an introduction to artists’ books and their points of contact with the larger cultures of contemporary visual arts and of the written…
…all contributors to the Without Reduction broadcast event on Resonance Extra, midday to midnight, 25 September 2021, including, in addition to the issue 12 print contributors: Sophia Al-Maria; Ruth Angel…
…people. Radicalised against the imperial domination of globalised PR projectionism, extrovert poise and loudness, the Shy Radicals and their guerrilla wing the Shy Underground are a vanguard movement intent on…
…Basel. Their work has recently been shown at Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme (2023), Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Castellón (2023), and Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich (2023), among others. They were Associate Director…
…obliquely with the legacies of surrealism, contemporaneous experiments in concrete poetry and the British conceptual art practices of the 1960s and 1970s, Saborami is part of an exilic and internationalist tradition. Years…
…lecture-performances and print media, this publication embraces new contributions in the form of essays, interviews, and archival presentation on subjects that range from seventeenth-century Sarmatism to the twenty-first-century Green Movement,…
Being, In a State of Erasureis currently out of print. ‘My artistic practice is concerned with locating performative and narrative methods with which to bring contemporary socio-political discourse into dialogue…
…of convergence in Iran and Poland’s economic, social, political, religious and cultural histories. Drawing on Slavs and Tatars’ multi-disciplinary practice encompassing research, installations, lecture-performances and print media, this publication embraces…
…Nina Wakeford is an artist, and Senior Tutor in Contemporary Art Practice and Reader in Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. Wakeford’s practice begins with what she considers…
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…Spa. Published by Book Works as part of Contact, guest edited by Hannah Black in an edition of 1,000; designed by Claude d’Avoine. Airport Love Theme is supported by the Contact series Supporters Circle….
Move…ment is the fourth issue of the journal …ment, and is dedicated to protest and language. Contributors were invited to formulate and re-frame the concept of resistance, particularly how it…
…2015). Her publications include Black Slit, The Fabricator’s Tale, The Dark Object (Book Works, 2023, 2014, 2010), and contributions to Documents of Contemporary Art, (Whitechapel/MIT 2013 2021). Palmer was a recipient…
…new, expanded facsimile edition remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance. Engaging obliquely with the legacies of surrealism, contemporaneous…
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…customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in Europe.…
…customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in Europe.…
…the context of regeneration as an inspiration and hindrance for contemporary artists. The Master Plan by Stephen Hodge, is co-published by Book Works and Situations, as part of Co-Series, in…
…world: economics versus magic. The book contains a fold-out panoramic view of books from the Harry Price Collection which can be cut-up and sent as postcards. The reverse side of…
…magazine Curtains, which blasted French contemporary writing into British culture, he is the author, editor and translator of numerous published and unpublished works, appended in this book as Selected Context….
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…bully and potential rival. Pete, co-directing the film, is consumed with unrequited lust for Angie… While Angie and Roy are definitively not speaking to each other, Pete and Licorice argue…
…widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in Europe. Edition prices will…
…an accidental moment become an eternal imprint in the minds of so many people? How do you capture those moments where time is wrecked, elongated, paused, contorted, wielded into a…
…and is housed in an ebony black slip case, designed and produced by Book Works Studio with Katrina Palmer. Also containing two b&w C-type matt photographic prints, wrapped in a…
…/ Author: Contemporary Artists’ Books, a touring exhibition organised by the American Federation of Arts. Itinerant Texts takes as its starting point the idea of the artist as itinerant worker,…
…Government Art Collection and Tate Gallery. Titchner is fascinated by the myriad systems of belief that permeate contemporary culture. He often revisits defunct and outmoded philosophies, especially those born out…
…contributors, the pervasiveness of popular culture and the possibilities of the imagination. Collected in the form of a book for the first time, this publication presents all the contributions up…
…eyes contort as your own tongue does trying to shape the words, tempted to twist, stretch or replicate the graphic tonguing on the page. About the artist: Michael Dean was…
…invited to contribute to the book, grouped into pairs, woman-man, and artist-theorist. Each pair enter into a dialogue with each other through image and text; the sections are self-contained but…
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…to the building of ships and global trade for centuries, into a visual collage using photography, video, printmaking, writing and performance. Helen Cammock’s practice uses photography, video, poetry, writing, performance,…
…that combine illustrated fantasies, anecdotes and vignettes of the artist, alongside collages of the artist’s studio, personal communications and a film on paper. These and other sections demonstrate Prouvost’s peculiar…
…recorded by the young people, documenting both the event and the work of making it happen. Ruth Ewan, a Scottish artist based in London, is known for creating context specific…
Drawing on the documentary tradition, in combination with contemporary concerns of participation and egalitarianism, Vox Populi, Tokyo continues this ever-expanding mappo mundi. Vox Populi, Tokyo is published to coincide with…
…to construct witty and finely controlled poems from the titles of books. As part of his contribution to the Book Works project Library Relocations in Liverpool Central Library, David Bunn…
Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters continues Cornelia Parker’s preoccupation with destruction. Following on from Cold Dark Matter, where − with the help of the British Army − Parker exploded…
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After The Night is about London in 2013. Or, more accurately, certain quarters in the east: Hoxton, Shoreditch, De Beauvoir, Dalston. Or perhaps it’s simply a joke: even more of…
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…the equivalent of your silence … One must always consider the contrary point of view. All thought has an antithesis, and this should always amend any statement. Finally, accept the…
…appear to exist in a highly dysfunctional world, that parodies, and replicates both the conditions of art, and its place in contemporary society. This meta-narrative is punctuation by short, abstract,…
…it loose, free. – K Patrick ‘I’m always making one thing’, says Skaer, whose assertion is upheld by the structure of this book: a space that contains her various sensibilities…
…floor plans that mark the building’s blind spots. Kerbel’s meticulous plans include every possible detail required to commit the perfect crime. The ubiquitous fantasy of a bank robbery functions as…
…and quotations, and containing extensive reproductions of Wardill’s work, the book’s content and design reflects the labyrinthine, and sometimes hallucinogenic quality of her films and their radical combination of form,…
…at Dundee Contemporary Arts in November 1999. This body of work comprised five projects that developed from the artist’s period of research with geneticists, medical sociologists and biochemists at Glasgow…
…Spa. Published by Book Works as part of Contact, guest edited by Hannah Black in an edition of 1,000; designed by Claude d’Avoine. Airport Love Theme is supported by the Contact series Supporters Circle….
…the score along with a CD that contains a complete new recording of the music from Vertigo. The book also contains critical texts by Raymond Bellour and Royal S. Brown….
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…late-1980s, Christopher began to collaborate with her subjects to make images in which documentary and performance converge. Dark Room brings together fifteen years of Christopher’s work, negotiating street, club, and…
Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters continues Cornelia Parker’s preoccupation with destruction. Following on from Cold Dark Matter, where − with the help of the British Army − Parker exploded…
…Idanre Hills – a UNESCO World Heritage site in Ondo State, the birthplace of Akingbade’s parents – the film is an introspective contemplation of the artist’s own personal relationship with…
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…contributions, this issue takes a hoarding, brutally accelerative approach and considers reading, too, as an unsustainable activity. Guest editor Sophia Al-Maria’s archive acts a sort of proto-Tumblr composed of school…
…Wilson. Whilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist’s mother, illustrates these…
…rather they are teasers with no context, telling more about what could happen than what really has happened. Weinmayr has arranged these legends in alphabetical sequence which isolated from the…
…at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, together with this publication, Vox Populi, Sydney – the second book by Fiona Tan in a series that present us with a ‘snapshot’…
…with shame through a series of short studies on, amongst other things, cats, hair as a metonym for the self in poetry and fiction, and perceptions of sexual violence. Made…
…a sequence that builds up a complete narrative, through gesture and repetition, with the printed text revealing something more of the content in its staccato presentation: the content is derived,…
…optimism in people, The Happy Hypocrite 9 imagines what it would mean to see the ‘plus’ reclaimed. The first issue to solicit sound-based contributions, opening the journal to music, and…
…Wilson. Whilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist’s mother, illustrates these…
‘Twenty–Nine Thousand Nights: A Communist Life is an unusual chronicle of the personal journey of Nan Berger through her writings, intelligence reports and visual images. From a wealthy middle class…
Perfumed Head began its life as a chapter of Digital Leatherette, a novel that was published on the internet; in that context the chapter formed the solution to a murder…
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Put About: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing presents a timely discussion about independent publishing and publishing by artists, focusing on books where the makers keep control of every aspect…
…process of the project – an ‘exquisite corpse’ involving collaboration, dissemination and the combining of works. Contributions from: Neil Chapman, Shezad Dawood, Per Hüttner, Juneau Projects, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben…
…photographs taken by actors and volunteers, professionals and amateurs, capture action on both sides of the camera. The images are accompanied by footnotes, e-mail exchanges and written and visual contributions…
…solid sans-serif type is used for the sections of the books that were actually spoken whilst a lighter serif is used to describe the performances and the intentions behind them….
…serialised ephemera, including The Seedless Grape and The Shiner. Some texts have been adapted for film, including Heavy Vibrations and Topshop Returns. She has contributed to the Nervemeter, International Times,…
…drawing, sculpture, photography and painting – Shrigley’s output defies categorisation and, indeed, resists analysis. Err illustrates the moral and artistic conundrums at the heart of contemporary commentary, using drawings full…
…Puny Existence considers ideas of mapping and navigation and the daily ebb and flow of the urban environment. It is a significant contribution to Inventory’s ongoing determination of a ‘fierce…
Joseph Kosuth made two installations in Oxford as part of The Reading Room Project, for the particular contexts of the Taylor Institution and of the Divinity School of the Bodleian…
…hostility, is misread; her identity repeatedly forced upon her, manipulated and rendered paranoid. Based on personal experience of a three month residency in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Not So Too…
…rape, assault and criminal damage. The work was conceived using new media as a corrective to the sterility of computer technology. The patients and staff each contributed a part of…
…a poster project to mark 40 years of commissions and book making, made in response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity. We have invited artists to contribute…
…globalisation and as part of a historical continuum of deceptions played out through the communications technologies of each age. Taking the form of a heavily (and spuriously) footnoted account of…
…size 455 x 395 mm, folded to 345 x 238 mm. This edition is now sold out. If you would like more information on Book Works’ Special Editions please contact:…
…escape from the demands of linearity and constraining grammatical correctness thats usually imposed on it. What’s My Name? contains a selection of work from the last twenty years amounting to…
…personal anecdotes together with art historical strategies and legacies to express a critical camaraderie in his subject. Cover Version features a selection of seminal publications from Monk’s extensive collection of…
…techniques of collage & bricolage, found text and image, interspersed with appropriated and parodic writing. Contributors: ArtstrA/Barbara Reise Archives; Steve Beard; Susanne Clausen; Marie Darrieussecq; Brian Dillon; Andrew Dodds; Thomas…
…academic journal in order to create new conjunctions and productive disjunctions between theory and practice out of which new voices and new modes of art writing emerge. Contributors include: Jennifer…
…research within the library, Marx Angels contains extracts from correspondence between Marx and Engels, who both spent time studying in Chetham’s Library. Presented as a journal and illustrated with details…
…With contributions ranging from Francis Bacon and Samuel Johnson to T.S. Eliot and Michel de Montaigne, and seemingly useless when divorced from the complete series of Great Books, this primer…
…unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works. Citing the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, Brisley emphasises the critical importance of error to the creation of…
…used to print them. The first section presents images of hands taken from photographs of people notable enough to be featured in newspapers; severed from their bodies and their contexts,…
…in visual art, but is rooted in the condition of contemporary life encountering along the way the literary tradition, music and philosophy. These provide the backbone to much of her…
…humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity. We have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a…
‘Funny, mordantly sexy, witty, true. These fragments of a life lived curiously perch somewhere between psychoanalysis and fiction, where strange desires play out through illness and romance, and both start…
…fictions, histories of colonial endevour, lifecycles of icebergs and the real effects of global warming, with images of contested and uncharted territories. Co-published by Book Works with The Arts Catalyst….
…cook. At the back of the book a glossary contains instructions for the recipes, which can be cooked as well as read. The recipes are punctuated with images: knick-knacks, objects…
…social media and swiping in dating apps, and the clash of hyper-capitalist forces of productivity and technology with the intimacy of a queer male gaze. ‘By presenting the imagined contents…
…contours, its material, its volume, in the different light of its manifestations”. The book presents a series of definitions of The Stumbling Block; written as prose, not poetry, these twenty…
…Gaza overshadowing all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3…
…all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3 posters. Any proceeds…
…‘Category of Introduction’, ‘Problems caused by Introduction’, and ‘Efforts of Control or Eradication’, drawing on both scientific fact and often bizarre cultural anecdote. Originally published in 2006, second edition, 2007….
…contours, its material, its volume, in the different light of its manifestations”. The book presents a series of definitions of The Stumbling Block; written as prose, not poetry, these twenty…
…have been selected and reconfigured by invited contemporary artists and musicians, re-staging and manipulating Weiner’s lyrics within the musical genres of two-step, west coast laptop electronica, noisecore, math rock and…
…the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity. We have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied,…
…news stories are sometimes poetic, sometimes overtly political, and sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and…
…whims of the Head Gallery, which remains an anonymous and inviolate force, the overseer of events and a selfless accumulator of prestige and wealth. Familiar contemporary artists are reanimated for…
…is to be trimmed by a guillotine. The book’s title suggests it is both additional and complementary to an unspecified thing, the shape and content of which can only be…
…addressing how the ongoing processes of selection, nomination and historicisation can determine status, value and meaning. The sixty-six contributors were proposed by a group of curators, gallerists, artists and writers….
…circuits of practice that have materialised in the form of books, writing, magazines, language, spoken word, performative research and archival practice, contributors include: A Estante, An Endless Supply, AND, Banner…
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…Tan is now using family photograph albums of Londoners. By loaning their albums, the contributors have given the artist unique access to domestic imagery that ranges from the celebratory to…
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…book, both in form and in content, presents itself as an enigma. The unique loose-leaf construction along with the juxtaposition of texts and image combine to entice the reader into…
…partial and subjective accounts of various creative practices, an experimental platform for ideas and an attempt to see in what ways the communist imagination can be materialised as art. Contributors…
…of glass lantern slides. The order of the content reflects the chronological sequence of events in the performance, using the nine items now listed in the Section J/78 of the…
…from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and questions what we perceive to be news and the construction of truth, fiction…
“Tickled pink. Scarlet with embarrassment. Purple with anger. Blue. Green with envy. Jaundiced yellow. White with fear. Black depression.” Adrian Piper’s book is a collaboration with sixteen people who were…
…− that negotiates our and its own worries about what a book ought to contain, in what order and for how long. In this book Durham looks at Englishness −…
…as a ‘communicative’ device is intended to be continued by this publication. Modelled on a French government document, this book aims to reveal both the structure of the bridge and…
That Fire Over There takes fire as a metaphor for ideas around queer attachment, proximity, and personal and collective transformation. It also excavates the history of a real fire which in…
A specially commissioned ten sided box containing 20 books and printed objects in different forms showing the architectural design and construction of the Cleveland Museum. The black silk covered box…
An artists’ multiple in the form of a large hourglass, presented in a two-part cloth covered box with specific padded linings to protect the contents. Two tabs at the either…
Paper covered hinged case containing various books and printed panels for a business proposal. The box automatically illuminates the interior when the lid is opened. The video screen contained inside…
…the sculptures contains sets of prints in cloth covered portfolios with foil blocked titles. The individual sculptures are also available as separate works contained in their own leather covered box….
Unique set of solander boxes containing material collected by the artist for the project. Each box has a printed cloth cover creating an overall design across the spines. The whole…
A unique solander box containing a book and DVD contained inside a drawer, and a USB drive in a recess. Designed by Weidemann Lampe, the box is covered in white…
…and paper with a specially made stainless steel edging surrounding the outer walls. The stainless steel is engraved with the title of the project. Foil blocked folders hold the contents….
A large cloth covered box containing a limited edition necklace created by the artist. Each of the stone beads on the necklace is annotated on the printed guide on the…
Wedding album containing printed photographs. The covering is made from five different cloths with a foil blocked title across the middle. The spine is left exposed to show the sewing….
Menu holders for a variety of clients covered in a variety of different materials, and showing different approaches of housing the contents….
A box with a hinged lid for an artist’s edition containing two crayons created by the artist from the remains of rose petals and stems that formed part of an…
Cloth covered portfolio to contain a series of prints. The folio is lined with mouldmade paper and has a foil blocked title on the front cover….
Two-part cloth covered box to contain a series of DVD cases. The boxes are lined with specially printed Yves Klein blue panels. Foil blocked titles throughout….
Unique series of books containing original Japanese calligraphy with letterpress printed text pages. Hand sewn and bound with different coloured goatskin spines and printed aluminium covers….
Simple hand stitched pamphlet style booklets with digitally printed contents. The booklets each have a letterpress title label with loose dust jacket….
Mock crocodile covered filing cabinet style box containing a series of texts. The drawer slides out to reveal a series of titled files holding texts printed onto cards….
Various silk covered binders designed to hold printed Room Guides for Kew Palace, Hampton Court and other historic houses. The contents can be easily replaced when necessary….
Solander boxes containing seven artist’s prints onto goatskin parchment. The box is covered in a black bookcloth with black foil blocked text on the front cover and spine….
A one-off presentation box for the annual book awards presented in a specially designed clamshell box containing the winning title. The box is covered in silk with foil blocked design…
Three different editions of books containing cocktail recipes. The books are bound in black hide allowing the covers to be slightly floppy. The outer cover is blind debossed with a…
Two artists’ books with custom made case to fit both copies. Designed by OK-RM, the printed interior of the case supplies a commentary to its contents….
A perfect bound softcover magazine style book. The cover and contents are digitally printed….
A coloured vellum covered two-part box containing a limited edition copy of the book by Julian Barnes with accompanying etchings by the artist….
A presentation book containing the history of the jewellery brand. The book is bound in hand marbled calfskin with a foil blocked title. The text pages are digitally printed and…
An artist’s multiple consisting of five small books, containing the artist’s writings, fitting into a specially constructed wooden case. Each of the letterpress printed books was printed at the Studio…
A two-part box containing a series of miniature postcards from the artist’s own collection made in an edition of 50 sets. The box is covered in black bookcloth with a…
An artists’ edition created for the Tate Gallery consisting of six different pamphlets and prints contained inside a folding box. The books were held together with a screw post that…
A cloth covered solander box with paper linings to contain a series of prints. The title letters are cut from pieces of copper and inset into the front cover. …
A solander box covered in the fashion designer’s own design of fabric, and containing printed casebound books and gatefold panels of the work….
An edition created for the artist combining two separate books of text and photographs with additional quotations contained within the form of the book. The front and back covers have…
Two-part presentation box containing various electronic devices for domestic use. The internal lining is created from multiple layers of coloured felt that have been cut away to house the objects….
Part of a series of large scale solander boxes to contain a set of prints. Various techniques of inlaid and onlaid calfskin and goatskin were used to create four of…
A series of printed and bound books containing architectural photographs. The cloth bound covers are foil blocked and blind debossed….
A selection of artists’ books containing various printmaking and collage techniques. The featured arttists include Ellis Nadler, Colin Hall, Adam Pendleton, and Beatriz Milhazes…
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Contract between Book Works, Jimmie Durham and the ICA, for the production of the publication My Book, The East London Coelacanth, Sometimes Called, Troubled Waters; The Story of British Sea-Power….
Contract drafted by Book Works for Liam Gillick regarding the publication Erasmus is Late (referred to by its working title Erasmus Kommt)….
Article about The Contemporary Picturesque by Nils Norman. Written by Gregory Williams, taken from ArtForum, undated, pp.158….
…… Jonathan Monk (2011). We try to celebrate / Further fits … Slavs and Tatars (2011). Extract from a contribution by Sean Lynch to A Rather Large Weapon – The…
Leaflet produced to accompany the Again, A Time Machine touring exhibition. The material from Book Works Archive: Contribution to Make the Living Look Dead by Bridget Penney (2011) Contribution to…
Copy of Athene, the Freud Museum Newsletter, no.4, Winter 1993/94. Page six contains a short article on The Reading Room exhibition organised by Book Works….
List of contents generated by Susan Hiller for After the Freud Museum. Four different versions with handwritten additions by Jane Rolo of Book Works….
Printed copy (trimmed to actual size) of draft layout, with cut and pasted content, of After the Freud Museum by Susan Hiller, with handwritten text by Jane Rolo of Book…
Reproduction of one of the illustrations for the publication Erasmus is Late, with a strip of fax paper containing handwritten text from Liam Gillick to Book Works regarding the accompanying…
Fax containing typed communication from Liam Gillick to Rob Hadrill and Jane Rolo at Book Works regarding the first draft for his publication Erasmus is Late. The letter is signed…
Draft text of title and contents list for After the Freud Museum by Susan Hiller with handwritten corrections by Jane Rolo of Book Works….
Typed and drawn content from Liam Gillick to Rob Hadrill and Jane Rolo at Book Works regarding the launch event for the publication Erasmus is Late….
Photographic documentation of the exhibition that accompanied the two day conference Book Works: A Woman’s Perspective. The exhibition took place at New Loom House, 101 Back Church Lane, London E1….
Text containing information for a New Texts commission at Book Works to be placed in Art Monthly, with handwritten annotations by Jane Rolo….
Photocopied sheet of advertisements in Art Monthly, contains a quarter page advertisement from Book Works regarding a New Texts commission (Post-It note on reverse listing the dates of the issues…
A single sheet of Book Works headed paper with a separate sheet containing an illustration attached by Sellotape. A handwritten letter from Rob Hadrill at Book Works to the designer…
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…Doc. And it was partly autobiographical, in the sense that it did describe real people in fictional events, but sort of the places where it’s set, so clubs and performances…
…artist book in the US and in Europe took on this very particular kind of expression. It’s quite a reductive expression, as you can see from the graphic perspective. But…
…the kind of shape of a journal or shape of the magazine in the way that it self-contains a kind of culture or a world-making between and for people, and…
…is nonsense, because when you call up for the liberation of an occupied people, it’s the same as calling for the liberation of women, of queer people, of people of…
…The very loose theme is contact. ‘I’m looking for works that encounter the complications of encounter: friendship/enmity, scenes, screens, movements, moments of togetherness. Contact can span from moments of intensity…
Join Book Works at PEER Gallery to celebrate the launch of Hamishi Farah’s Airport Love Theme and the new Contact series, edited by Hannah Black. Readings from Hamishi Farah and…
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…HH has been publishing experimental art writing for ten years – creating against type – and during this time the field has emerged and our surrounding cultural landscape greatly changed….
Contacts, which opens today at BALTIC, Newcastle, is an intimate glimpse at lesbian community in San Francisco in the ‘90s through the archive of photographer Phyllis Christopher. Belonging to a…
…Jane has led publishing and commissioning at Book Works, building a singular approach to working with artists. Her incomparable contribution to art and publishing has been to foreground a unique…
A symposium on independent publishing and publishing by artists, exploring why producers feel compelled to deliver such materials, and the economic models and audiences that ensure their cultural presence. Contributors…
…of the agit-prop theatre group ‘Al-Assifa’ in the context of urgent economic, political and humanitarian upheaval. With contributions from Abdellali Hajjat, Hendrik Folkerts, Pothiti Hantzaroula, and interviews with Philippe Tancelin,…
…top of the first page: postal address, email address, contact telephone number/skype contact. A completed Equal Opportunities form (download PDF here). Selection Katrina Palmer and Book Works will draw up…
…Contradict contradictions? Are you working in referential formal structures or genres in a generative, rebellious craft? Your work might produce subtle or unsubtle forms of satire, parody, irony, drag, comedy,…
…Peter Maybury. Following the American sociologist C. Wright Mills’ suggested practice of filing the ideas that compel you, then periodically unpacking, shuffling and spreading out the contents in search of…
…address, contact telephone number/skype contact. 4. A completed Equal Opportunities form (download below). 5. A registration fee of £10/£5. If you are on a low income, in receipt of benefits…
…writers to be commissioned through a process of open submission. This legacy continues in 2019 with ‘Contact’, a new series of books commissioned by Hannah Black, and a new issue…
…and published by Book Works. This audio event will expand upon themes in the printed journal – commissioning new audio work from contributors to this issue, and the eleven previous ones. Contributors…
…and the Flea, implicating them in questions around growth, extraction, contamination and existence within systems of control. It includes new sculpture, painting, installation, light and sound work and runs until…
…remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance. Engaging obliquely with the legacies of surrealism, contemporaneous experiments in concrete poetry and the…
…trapped by Clarke, and the way in which the contemporary circulation of images of Black people suffering triggers a retraumatising process of spectacularisation. Newly commissioned essays by Olamiju Fajemisin, Noémi…
…Utilising language as a controlling device they shape content into familiar forms – sculpture, installation, an essay or an anecdote, video and voice, the self-consuming novel or pulp noir fiction….
…and offer any help we can to all the people we work with, whether artists, designers, co-partners, audience, bookshops, libraries, and our local community. CONTACTS: Book Works Studio: 020 7247…
…contact with the Directors of Book Works. If you are interested or would like to know more please contact Gavin Everall at [email protected]. If you would like to apply, please…
Coinciding with Phyllis Christopher’s exhibition Contacts at BALTIC, and the publication of her book Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003; Ariel Goldberg, Languid Hands and Sam Dolbear contribute…
…On your CV, please ensure that you include: – Your contact details. – Details of your current and previous employment with dates – Contact details for two professional referees (we…
…experience of working with and nurturing artists at all stages of their careers. Gavin has been a wonderful colleague, a kindred spirit, and I am certain Book Works will continue…
Thank you so much to everyone who contributed and tuned in to our marathon radio broadcast to celebrate the life and death of The Happy Hypocrite on Saturday! Even we…
…over the years were invited to make a new work on A4 paper as a contribution, intervention or fictionalisation for our archive. Each work plays with notions of time, and…
…must always consider the contrary point of view. All thought has an antithesis, and this should always amend any statement. Finally, accept the futility of resolution. Any thought you may…
…texts relating to the exhibition, visit the Lungley Gallery website. Maya Balcioglu is a contributor to The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and its Afterlives, published by Book Works in 2020….
…friendly team you will also play an active part in scheduled book fairs and events into 2020/21. To apply The application pack contains the job description, person specification and full…
…responses to the violence of the military junta. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s original publication and of the coup in Chile, this expanded edition published contains a…
…presents a personal selection of objects and actions, containing elements of ambition, humour, pathos and resistance, which present us with invaluable evidence of creative life in Britain today. Includes a…
Book Works and Bridget Penney present an evening of screenings, readings and music at The Horse Hospital on 27 February 2020 to launch new novel Licorice and the Interstices series….
…book contains hand- and typewritten poems, diary entries, and documentation of assemblages and paintings by Vicuña from the previous ten years. Ehrenberg wrote in his editor’s note that Saborami was…
…How does an accidental moment become an eternal imprint in the minds of so many people? How do you capture those moments where time is wrecked, elongated, paused, contorted, wielded…
…between people, palpable but traceless, and hard to prove. Edited by Erica Scourti, with an introduction by artist and writer Maria Fusco and contributions by CAConrad, Mel Y. Chen, Adam…
…‘the witch’s grave’ since way back when. As events spiral out of control, the horror tropes invoked by the project contextualise an immediate, inescapable sense of unease. About Interstices In…
Hamishi Farah’s first UK solo exhibition – London UK – is now open at Arcadia Missa until 30 August 2023. The gallery contains 3 paintings, Roberto Cavalli, Beyoncé, & Whale,…
…publication and of the coup in Chile, this expanded edition published by Book Works contains a new introduction by art historian and curator Amy Tobin and poet and writer Luke…
…as the Mother of Love, Peace and Joy). Reflecting the hybrid nature of our contemporary world, Aliasing reconfigures our understanding of who we are as a twice-told tall tale from…
…the young people, documenting both the event and the work of making it happen. Ruth Ewan, a Scottish artist based in London, is known for creating context specific art projects,…
…that overthrew him and prompted the Turkish invasion. As a result, its precise meaning is undecided, and contested, loaded as it is with shiftable symbols of oppression: a Lady Liberty-type…
…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 points of human subjectivity. Palmer’s…
FIXED TERM CONTRACT JULY 2018 – END OF DECEMBER 2019 (18 MONTHS) Deadline for applications: 6 June 2018 to start July 2018 1 day per week subject to contract and…
…and readers: Book Works, Juan de la Cosa, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, MOIST, and Prototype, and Paul Becker, Jen Calleja, Sharon Kivland, Mira Mattar, Francesco Pedraglio, and Adrian Rifkin. Francesco Pedraglio’s new…
…practice of hosting informal conversations among friends. Events take place in a private home. Please contact Hamja if you wish to attend. Hamja Ahsan is an artist, activist, curator and…
29–30 June 2024 Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol More info/contact We’ll be back in Bristol for BABE, Bristol Artist’s Book Event, on 29–30 June. The first Bristol Artist’s Book Event was…
…across visual arts and contemporary culture, with a special exhibition and public programme including readings, workshops and talks. Free entry but RSVP for events in the public programme. 24-25 October…
We are very happy to have been asked to contribute to Queercircle’s Gathering with Palestine programme this summer, alongside over 15 other organisations and collectives. From Queercircle: “Taking an intersectional…
…all rational thought and leaving us without escape. This numbing venom allows us to lope onwards in a hallucinatory, consumptive daze without recognising what beasts are eating us at this…
…June, 2022 Time: 6.30–9.00 pm. Cost: £260 per student Click here for more info including what will be taught in each class. To book or make enquiries please contact: [email protected]…
…be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio. Course Dates: Thursdays from 2nd February to 29th March, 2012 Time: 6.30 to 9.00pm Cost: £200 per student Course contact details:…
…is applied to food. ‘Good’ is imprecise in ways which enhance its effectiveness in a culinary context; it suits every appetite. When paired with the compelling mystery of an edible…
…archive of material formed by contemporary interventions and additions to our archive by a selection of Book Works’ artists, including a live performance by Brian Catling. The Spike Island exhibition…
…and distribution. From strikes to sit-ins and protests to collective provocations, we are looking for proposals that engage in, transform or are otherwise informed by political issues and contemporary actions…
…combining Antarctic myths and fictions, histories of colonial endevour, lifecycles of icebergs and the real effects of global warming, with images of contested and uncharted territories. Co-published by Book Works…
…conundrums at the heart of contemporary commentary, using drawings full of bleak humour, that confound the brain and unsettle the soul. We’ll be doing a promotion on a different book…
Book Works would like to thank Arts Council England for its continued support of us as a National Portfolio Client….
…Penfold Street explores the limits and antagonisms of performance, self-immolation, social relations and stench. The event finishes with a Chicks On Speed Performance – Lecture, A Modest Proposal featuring: Melissa…
…Gallery in November 2022 and has since toured to Spike Island, Bristol and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. It opens at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead on 17 November 2023,…
…new post, to start early May 2012. Deadline for applications is 5 March 2012 Interviews for shortlisted applicants 19 March 2012 For more details contact: Jane Rolo 020 7247 2203…
A nine week courses 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…
…celebrated design agencies – as Designer and later Senior Designer. He founded his own design practice in 2020, where he continues working and collaborating with artists and art institutions. In…
…contemporary poetry translations; a sequel, Intimacy, is forthcoming. She is the translator, from the Dutch, of Lieke Marsman’s The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes (Pavilion, 2019). Most recently, she has translated Marsman’s…
…by contacting either the Una Marson Library or National Poetry Library. Order Practice Makes Perfect. Image: She is Still Alive! by Rosa-Johan Uddoh in Southwark Park. Artist flag co-commissioned by…
…Akingbade comprising of two new film commissions. Shot on location in Nigeria, The Fist and Faluyi are Akingbade’s most ambitious productions to date, building upon her continued interest in history,…
The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and its Afterlives is now available to pre-order. This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focused entirely on Stuart Brisley’s…
…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…
…in leatherwork, but also other aspects of bookbinding and boxmaking. The rate of pay will be between £27-£32K p.a. Start date is negotiable. Applicants should contact Rob Hadrill at [email protected] for any…
…wall paintings, sculpture and archive TV and film footage to re-address the mediation of art and ideas and their relation to a nomadic audience. As contributors to and co-editors of…
Part five: Stewart Home White Columns, New York 22 October to 19 November 2011 Opening Friday 21 October 6 – 8 pm Performance: Stewart Home and Kenneth Goldsmith Saturday 22…
…you’re looking for the perfect gift, or to start or grow your own art collection, we have an exciting inventory of limited edition prints and special edition books available. We’re…
…ideas around queer attachment, proximity, and personal and collective transformation. It also excavates the history of a real fire which in 1981 destroyed the Hambrough Tavern – a contested site…
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 Inspired…
…with all of the contributors – Phyllis will be joined by Susie Bright, Laura Guy, Shar Rednour and Michelle Tea. The event will be hosted by Centre for Sex and…
…all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3 posters. All proceeds…
…sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and questions what we perceive to be news and the…
…Fog. Kathryn Scanlan Jigisha Bhattacharya Idil Tekin Hosted and curated by Bhanu Kapil The venue has step free access. Please contact Bhanu Kapil at [email protected] if you have any questions….
…of 62 pieces of prose fiction marked by preoccupations with character, professional personas, conversational knots and the social economies of art making. A variety of tones, approaches and conditions of…
…discuss the process of regeneration, and the exploration of the contemporary past, through reflections on The Master Plan – a book which emerged from a public art programme in recession-hit…
…of representation, with a particular focus on the libidinal afterlife of coloniality and itʼs permeation through contemporary art. In 2020, Book Works published Farah’s graphic novel, Airport Love Theme. Drawings…
…contains interviews with 11 UK public sector workers about their experiences working through the COVID-19 pandemic. Book Works is delighted to be publishing Harun Morrison’s first novel, The Escape Artist,…
…binding. Soft covers with stab stitching. Week 7. Slipcase designed to hold the books made from the course. Week 8. Personal project, Part I. Week 9. Personal project, Part II….
…work in the Ministry of Transport, resolving the coal crisis in the winter of 1947–48 for which she was awarded an OBE. Her autobiography is unfinished, consisting of contemporary notes…
We are delighted to welcome a new trustee to the Book Works board, Tess Denman-Cleaver. Tess is Senior Programme Manager (Young People & Communities) at New Writing North. She previously…
…Japanese style binding. Soft covers with stab stitching. Week 7. Slipcase designed to hold the books made from the course. Week 8. Personal project, Part I. Week 9. Personal project,…
Please note that this role has noe been filled. Sales Assistant, Book Works (1 day per week) Salary: £30,000 (pro-rata £6,000 per annum) Permanent contract (probation period 8 weeks) Location:…
…carves out new territories and disrupts established forms. No consensus of practice is aimed for, rather these six events present a range of singular and contesting voices, including: Eileen Daly,…
…6pm. The event is hosted by BALTIC, where Phyllis Christopher’s first solo retrospective, Contacts, is now open. Visit the BALTIC website for more details and to book a free ticket….
…of books, writing, magazines, language, spoken word, performative research and archival practice, contributors include: A Estante, An Endless Supply, AND, Banner Repeater, Claire Makhlouf Carter, Eastside Projects, Maria Fusco, Dora…
…London. Throughout a wide range of formats, from artists’ books and exhibition catalogues to posters, marketing material, exhibitions, websites, film titles and music, the studio prioritises artists’ and writers’ content…
…per attachment is 2 MB. The Happy Hypocrite will return work if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is included. We will only contact you if we want to publish your submission….
…Duval’ is the latest comic book from celebrated artist, writer and cartoonist Simon Grennan, performing as Duval, as though the cartoonist and actress had been revived in the twenty-first century….
…the dues paying membership of the Communist Party was about 7,700 but the sales of the Daily Worker were 30,000 daily, rising to 70,000 at the weekend. Selling to people…
Stewart Home Presented as part of Book Works’ Again A Time Machine, an exhibition in which the twin poles of archive and distribution are explored through new art commissions, performance…
Our Book of the Month, with 30% off throughout September 2024, is The Council of Spent by Inventory. Capitalism continues to disempower us, with its corrosive mantra that it provides…
…Japanese style binding and slipcase making. On Monday evenings, starting on 21st September. See PDF for details. Course contact details: Email: [email protected] Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London EC2A 4JB Telephone:…
…photographs, Clunie Reid’s photo-collages appropriate and violently represent the banality of everyday images. Drawing on the sexual content and rhetoric of advertising, and often reproduced on a mirrored surface with…
A writer, an archivist and a painter set out on foot to explore the landscape of Britain. Eschewing the heritage trail they walk the streets of Dalston and Stoke Newington,…
…psychologically. From the multiple perspectives of class, financial hardship, gender identity, sexuality, embodiment, and mental health, and in the various contexts of strained family and other personal relationships, and the…
Book Works is delighted to announce that Jan Burgess has been appointed Co-Director of the Studio. Jan Burgess joined Book Works in 2003 and has made an invaluable contribution to…
…art. Contributors include: 16Beaver, Michael Blum, AA Bronson, Maria Eichorn, Factotum, Dmitry Gutov, Wu Ming, Aleksandra Mir, Sarah Pierce/The Metropolitan Complex, CK Rajan, Raqs Media Collective, Dont Rhine, Martha Rosler,…
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…Myers to create the detailed drawings of the contours of each of the 19 lakes so that the Studio could cut the contours from the pages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQUArSVOq4o The other important…
…behind work was based around a building that they had created for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. We created a nine sided box that mirrored the shape of…
…are Idea Books covering worldwide sales including Europe and the USA. Idea Books Amsterdam Tel +31 20 6226154 Fax +31 20 6209299 Email Libraries Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Library…
…of books featuring the artists’ response to one of the seven deadly sins. Published by Seven Sins Press. Envy Adam Pendelton A limited edition of 24 books containing 200 screen…
…Safeguarding Every charitable organisation has a duty to protect the people they work with and those they are trying to help from any form of harm, especially children, young people,…
…design, printing and binding depending on the nature of the project. A huge range of binding methods are available in the Studio from very traditional approaches to more contemporary forms….