
…new Northern Line Extension tunnels (NLE), which join the current line at Kennington station, as a ‘pink depot’ for London Underground. The book is a collection of annotated accounts derived…
…new Northern Line Extension tunnels (NLE), which join the current line at Kennington station, as a ‘pink depot’ for London Underground. The book is a collection of annotated accounts derived…
…the moment I needed it. – Kate Briggs, White Review Books of The Year (2020) Gift Membership: Give a 1 year membership to our Readers Club as a gift and we’ll…
‘Katrina Palmer’s The Touch Report asks a question that remains in motion for the duration of this extraordinary book. What is here? What’s still here? Here, Palmer writes an account…
The Citizens is both an on-line project and unique publication that marks a particular moment in the development of the internet. It is a tribute to people’s constant desire to…
…However, it is not a book, it is constructed from silver plastic and has a line of small knobs and a rudimentary button keyboard. Along one side are a series…
…Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic.’ Encompassing more than a decade of work, Sad Sack tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the…
…ten detailed clauses. One of these required the production of a book: ‘Four Guineas to obtain a small Gold Medal and One Guinea in cash for the boy (not being…
Diamond Sea is a photographic journey through Diamond Areas One and Two: a highly secure 70,000 square kilometre area along the coastline of the Namibian desert. This area, containing the…
…· Share Benz (11 November 2011 at 8.40am) · Like all these little things – trust me Merced Es Benz is an account of a dysfunctional love affair, narrated via…
…well as a first-hand account of the role of social media in the current protest movements in Spain, fiction that counteracts the populist-neoliberal and pervasive PRI political party in Mexico,…
…presented as a fictional account of the emergence of significance from everyday banality and detail. The discussions that arise in this book are specifically aimed at a visual art audience…
…text, forming an adjacent narrative. In part an account of the times, the counter-currents and counter-culture of the last four decades, in part an exploration of the nature of scrapbooks…
…of dating scenarios. In one of these, speed daters smell T-shirts as the narrator desperately tries to account for an alarming absence of desire. The specificities of love and sex…
‘An account of political struggle and precarious beauty…today Saborami offers us a delicate, undying vision of collective renewal at a time of desperation, when fury and sorrow might seem the…
…via the Readers Club and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was produced on account of the Kickstarter campaign for…
…With its collage of documents, MI5 surveillance reports and contemporary photographs, this is a vivid account of the transforming power of progressive politics in one woman’s life.’ – Alison Light…
…Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was produced on account of the Kickstarter campaign for Upcycle This Book by Gavin…
…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…
…support Book Works via the Readers Club and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was produced on account of the…
…challenges you not just to correct and question, but to doubt your own account of history. How would you balance pre-history against the Black Death, the Bayeux Tapestry or Reagan’s…
In Of Lives Between Lines Daniel Jewesbury uses the fictional account of an Anglo-Indian woman in John Masters’ 1954 novel, Bhowani Junction as a template to construct his own hybrid…
…punctuated with outrageous incidents and, as the narrative progresses, the actions of the narrator become more and more crude. Confessions is an account of the transformation of faux-naïveté and embarrassment…
…Library Science, 1931, as they do and don’t apply to the collection of contemporary zines, and an account of the stolen library of the late Saudi novelist Abd al-Rahman Munif….
…felt whilst traveling. This feeling is compounded by the addition of blue line drawings super-imposed on each image that operate as a form of ‘punctuation’ and accentuate potential meanings within…
The Human Body is a signed, limited edition screenprint taken from an original line drawing commissioned by Book Works. Turner prize 2013 nominee Shrigley describes his own work as having…
…wider body of work includes published essays and texts, lectures, curatorial and collaborative projects, all of which inform (and are informed by) his art practice. Gillick’s line of enquiry is…
…places will have passed through her lips…’ With the minimum of instructions and a restricted format of four lines, Dora García’s collaborative and participatory project has now collected over 2,500…
…Friendship in this sense is both a set-up for working and a dimension of production. The line of thought that threads through the following pages is thus that of friendship…
…whilst travelling. This feeling is compounded by the addition of blue line drawings super-imposed on each image that operate as a form of ‘punctuation’ and accentuate potential meanings within the…
…in London and Maryam Eisler. The second edition of this publication is generously supported by Raster, Warsaw; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; The Third Line, Dubai; and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin….
…eponymous section addressing the complexity of languages and identities on the fault line of Eurasia, and Steppe by Steppe, a restoration of the regions seemingly reactionary approaches to romance. Slavs…
…the line between what might have happened and what is merely imagined. Mapped onto this web of memory and imagination are Roland and Julie, the survivors of a king’s unsuccessful…
…sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to ‘unfree’…
…with whom Holman wants to act in solidarity. Finding Jason captured by the extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works to reproduce his…
Eva Weinmayr presents a collection of newsstand posters − capitalized handwritten legends that condense complex realities into three or four-line news splashes. Charged with meaning, these headlines give no information;…
…all the stories, all men and women, all time and all places will have passed through her lips…’ With the minimum of instructions and a restricted format of four lines,…
…sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to ‘unfree’…
…the line between what might have happened and what is merely imagined. Mapped onto this web of memory and imagination are Roland and Julie, the survivors of a king’s unsuccessful…
Boxed set of 3 digitally printed books containing pencil drawings printed onto Zerkall mouldmade paper. Each concertina format book is covered in a different shade of grey card with titles…
Various leather bound account books replicating old volumes produced for the film. The books are bound in the traditional spring-back account book style with indexed internal pages and edge colouring….
The third in an occasional series of online readings, performances and more from Book Works artists and authors in isolation. The third in an occasional series of online readings, performances…
…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 credit line….
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…chapters, each themed around a particular sense, with a text-based work of some kind. In this photo essay, Juliet Jacques responds to the prompt of ‘Visual Pleasures’ with an account…
…wearing variations on leather and denim sit on top of a line of phone boxes cutting a mid-line across the photograph. I catch them in mid-euphoria, gassing and lighting each…
The London Transport Museum has published an overview of Nina Wakeford’s OUR PINK DEPOT THE GAY UNDERGROUND FLO-N202-236000000- TRK-MST-00002-SAY- HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE- KEN-NIE-BPS, which we co-published with Art on the Underground in…
…books. So yeah, we’re really happy to have Marwan Kaabour with us today. Marwan is the founder of Takweer, which is an Instagram account, which sort of documents queer Arab…
…your previous and relevant work. Please email your proposal to Gavin Everall, [email protected], putting ‘INTERSTICES SUBMISSION’ in the subject line. Please attach all documents as PDFs. 1. Outline of your proposal…
…no more than 2,000 words, 12 point, with a double line space. Image or text/image submissions should be no more than 6 pages, 12 point, with a double line space….
…Maria Fusco Deadline: Monday 17, February, 2020, at 5pm GMT. Please send submissions to: [email protected] Without Reduction ‘A month ago, I was walking past a second-hand bookshop in New Haven, when…
…and a short CV (no more than one side A4 please). Text submissions should be no more than 2,000 words, 12 point, with a double line space. Image or text/image…
…double line space. Image or text/image submissions should be no more than 6 pages, 12 point, with a double line space. Images can be sent in TIFF, GIF, JPEG format….
…with a double line space. Image or text/image submissions should be no more than 6 pages, 12 point, with a double line space. Images can be sent in TIFF, GIF,…
…or making a one-off donation. You can also buy membership for someone else – starting from just £5/month, you can give someone the gift of supporting experimental publishing while building…
…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…
…is quickly terminated – not for organising a ‘committee’ to represent the temporary clerks at the bank, but for membership of the Party. In spite of this intervention and in…
Tuesday, 13 December, 7-8.30pm Online, free. RSVP. To mark the publication of Battles, Vol 1 by Francesco Pedraglio, join us online for an evening of readings and discussion with publishers…
…the open lecture, there is a visual and aural account of doubt, destruction and fear. Originally staged at the Conway Hall Ethical Centre – London’s centre for Humanist free-thinking –…
…as the slide play collides with the open lecture, it is a visual and aural account of doubt, destruction and fear. Originally staged at the Conway Hall Ethical Centre –…
…officious and uptight. Excellent is by no means relaxed: a dining room appears with chairs that make me sit with a rod straight back. One does not recline into excellence….
…find safety and strength collectively, to effectively hold power to account.’ Featuring: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Aurelia Guo, Emily LaBarge, So Mayer, Yamen Mekdad, Lucy Mercer, Elaine Mitchener, Zarina Muhammad, Rose Nordin,…
…of London, offering an innovative account of the relationship between art-writing, ethics and subjectivity through the lens of feminist theories. Attentive to the sonic resonances of language, her textual work…
…to decipher, but Patrick Davies uploaded this photo, taken in 1981, to their Flickr account. bottom: a more recent image of the crossroads at which Nan was thought to have…
…away with one monkey hand, its two monkey feet planted on her hunched shoulders for leverage. small white monkeys is thus a commentary on a poem, a personal account of…
…October. We would like to invite you to the following launch events, in Mexico, Turin, and online Mexico City Book Launch 7pm, 26 October 2022 Readings and discussion with Jo…
…browser tabs, a treatment for an unmade film and a variety of dating scenarios. In one of these, speed daters smell T-shirts as the narrator desperately tries to account for…
Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami: Extended facsimile edition is the Editors’ Choice in the Spring issue of BOMB Magazine, reviewed by Henry Broome. “An account of political struggle and precarious beauty, the…
…alongside a brilliant line up of local and international publishers, artist presses and collectives, as well as a free public programme of talks, workshops and parties. We’ll have all our…
…an artist and writer, Palmer’s solo exhibitions are What’s Already Going On (Mead Gallery 2023); Hello (England’s Creative Coast 2021); The Coffin Jump (Yorkshire Sculpture Park 14-18NOW, 2018); The Necropolitan Line (Henry Moore Institute 2015); End Matter (Artangel,…
…of Clarke’s film with whom Holman wants to act in solidarity. Finding Jason captured by the extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works…
…extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works to reproduce his words, rather than his image, placing them as looping samples of script in…
Book Works is looking to expand its Publishing team with a new position of Public Programme and Communications Coordinator (3 days per week) Salary: £28,850 (pro-rata: £17,310) Deadline for applications:…
…Coffin Jump (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 14-18NOW, 2018); The Necropolitan Line (Henry Moore Institute, 2015); End Matter (Artangel, BBC Radio 4, Book Works, 2015) ; The Dark Object (Book Works, 2010)….
…artist. Commissioned by Art on the Underground, Nina Wakeford was embedded for 18 months with the tunnel engineers, rail laying teams and miners who built the Northern Line extension between…
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