reading room
ft. Bladr
Thanks to funding from the Art Council's Pilot for the distribution and dissemination of artists' books, I am building a reading room re: identity, community, and publishing.
Throughout the course of (be)longing, new titles will be added a total of 5 times, coinciding with each new exhibition in the space. The long table, mis-matched stools and shelves of books are the exhibition's only, albeit in flux, constant variable.
Titles in the reading room are selected by myself and a group of external actors: independently-run bookshops, curators and other practitioners whom I deeply respect and admire. Links to purchase primarily go directly to the institution who recommended the title. Other links go directly to PDFs or online sources. So far the entities who have contributed recommendations are:
Hverdag Books ✿
It me
GOOD PRESS ■
Good Press is a workers cooperative dedicated to the promotion, distribution and production of independent or self published printed matter alongside co-projects Sunday's Print Service and Lunchtime Gallery. They are a bookshop, events and gallery space, risograph printer and bookmaking studio based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Bladr ✺
Based in Copenhagen, Bladr was founded in 2017 and continues to assume various shapes by being a bookstore and an exhibition place, as well as a space for workshops, screenings, performances, book launches, talks, and other events. Their goal is to increase the visibility of artists' books and to create and facilitate activities that foster a larger community.
A POETICS OF THE PRESS: INTERVIEWS WITH POETS, PRINTERS, & PUBLISHERS ■
Kyle Schlesinger (Editor) + Cuneiform Press
2021
A SOFT MANIFESTO ✿
Cortney Cassidy
2020
A[LIE][NATION] STATELESSNESS AND AI ROBOTS ✺
Samara Sallam
2019
ANTHOLOGY FOR LISTENING VOL. 1 ✺
Bureau for Listening
2023
A-SIDE: ARE YOUR DREAMS AT NIGHT 1985 SIZES TOO BIG? ■
Graham Holliday
2019
CALLING ALL DIVAS ✺
Tyler Matthew Oyer
2017
CENTRAL BOOKS: A BRIEF HISTORY 1939 TO 1999 ■
Dave Cope
2000
CREATE DISTURBANCE IN YOUR MIND ■
Private Sorrow
2022
DECOLONIZING NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION ✿ ■
meenadchi
2021
DOWN WITH THE POOR! ✿
Shumona Sinha
2022
DRAWING A FIGURINE ■
Georgia K. O'Brien
2022
EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR I STILL KEEP THE TAKE ✺
Georgia Anne Muldrow
FRUITING ■
Hayley Jane Dawson
2022
HOW TO MANEUVER: SHAPESHIFTING TEXTS AND OTHER PUBLISHING TACTICS ■
Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis (Editors)
2021
I AM WRITING A MONOLOGUE ■
Jessica Higgins
2022
IMPERFECT ARCHIVING, ARCHIVING AS PRACTICE FOR A LOVE OF SOFTNESS ■
Be Oakley
2021
INSIDE A GLEAMING FEELING ■
Craig Pollard
2020
LANGUAGE SCRAPS 02: MARK E. SMITH'S HANDWRITING AND THE TYPOGRAPHY OF THE FALL ■
Paul Wilson
2021
LAVENDER SCARE ✺
Arantza Pena Popo
2021
MSHERESIES 2: USEFUL WORK VERSUS USELESS TOIL ■
Rietlanden Women's Office
2019
NEVER RUN FASTER THAN YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL CAN FLY ✺
Fryd Frydendahl
2022
NONBINARYHOOD ■
Aki Hassan
2022
PIT ■
Lisa Anne Auerbach
2021
PUBLISHING MANIFESTOS ■ ✿
Michalis Pichler (Editor) + Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair
2018
PUNK IS DAD ■
Jamie Johns
2011
RAB-RAB JOURNAL ISSUE #06 ■
Journal of political and formal inquiries in art
2021
(RE)CLAIMING AGENCY: CARE, TRAUMA AND THE MEDICAL INSTITUTION ■
Greta Sharp
2022
REVOLUTION AS AN ETERNAL DREAM: THE EXEMPLARY FAILURE OF THE MADAME BINH GRAPHICS COLLECTIVE ■
Mary Patten
2011
RIFF RAFF ✺
Franziska Brandt and Moritz Grünke
2018
STAGES: ON DYING, WORKING, AND FEELING ■
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
2020
STICKY FINGERS RECOMMENDS ■
Sticky Fingers
2022
THE GROCER'S ITCH ■
Jessica Higgins
2022
THE NATURAL ENEMIES OF BOOKS: A MESSY HISTORY OF WOMEN IN PRINTING AND TYPOGRAPHY ■
MMS (Editor)
2020
THE STRAIGHT MIND ✺
Cast Ello
THE SUN ISN'T OUT LONG ENOUGH ■
Tatevik Sargsyan (Editor)
2021
THE URGE ✺
Dimitris Tairis
2020
UPROOT ■
Sasha Delmage
2022
URGENT PUBLISHING AFTER THE ARTIST'S BOOK: MAKING PUBLIC IN MOVEMENTS TOWARDS LIBERATION ■
Paul Soulellis
2021
VÄNNERNAS ARENA ✿
Erik Viklund
2020