Constituting a book market, reading room and programme of events, Inventory will foreground interdisciplinary, collaborative and non-profit forms of publishing and instigate research into the agency of the artists publication and the capacities of the artist-led press.
Looking to the pasts, presents and futures of the printed form as part of an extended dialogue of artist and activist practice, this inaugural weekend programme welcomes established presses, occasional publishers, zinesters and those making their first experiments with print.
Inventory Art Book Fair runs Friday, 7th June - Sunday, 9th June
Public Programme
A free programme of events aims to instigate conversations across the ecosystem of artist publishing, from editors, designers and printers to archivists and librarians, and propose new intersections between publishing, performance, sound and installation.
Opening Evening of Performance
Thursday, 6th June, 6 - 8pm, Free
Inventory opens with a celebratory evening of happenings underscoring intersections between publishing, performance, architecture and the voice. A drinks reception will follow.
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What Did You Do…?
The Reading Room, Cromwell Place Cafe
Friday, 7th June, 3.30pm - 5pm, Free
Book Works present a panel of speakers and participants to discuss and expand What Did You Do…? (2024), a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and bookmaking. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all activity, Book Works 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 from this project will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
A publisher-generated programme of readings and launches will unfold in the Inventory Reading Room at other times.
Closing Evening of Performance
Sunday 9th June, 5 - 8pm, Free
Inventory closes with an immersive series of performances drawing connections between the written word and sound, projection, moving image and the psychedelic.
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Exhibitor List:
- 5b
- ABC [Artists' Books
- Cooperative]
- Amanda Denny
- AND Publishing
- Arcadia Missa Publications
- Baron
- Bertie Brandes
- BOOKS
- Book Works
- Bricks from the Kiln
- Bronze Age
- CentreCentre
- Ceremony Press
- Colossive Press
- Craic Magazine
- Desire Press
- Fieldnotes
- Folium
- Foolscap Editions
- Gisela Torres
- Hapax Publishing
- Highchair Editions
- Into the Paint
- Edgar Martins / The Moth House
- Less Than 500 Press
- Lore Archive
- Maria Ahmed
- Mark Pawson
- Masterpieces
- Mascalzone Books
- Mini Mart Press
- Mohammad Namazi
- Monitor Books
- Morley House
- Negative Press London
- OOMK / Migrants in Culture
- Overlapse
- PageMasters
- Palm* Studios
- Photobook Cafe
- Pleats
- Prototype
- Queer Street Press
- Reference Point
- SERCHIA
- Shri Gunasekara
- Silvia’s Mother
- SMUT Press
- Sold Out Publishing
- Strike Design Studio
- SWIRLY 5000
- TACO
- Terra Firma
- The Academy of Realness
- The Grass is Green in the Fields for You
- The Slow Grind
- The West Asian and North African Women's Art Library
- Village
- Jane & Jeremy
- Mosaic Rooms
+ More to be announced.
Thursday, 6th June: Opening Evening of Performance: 6-8pm
Friday, 7th June: 12-6pm
Saturday, 8th June: 11am-6pm
Sunday, 9th June: 11am-4pm
Sunday, 9th June: Closing Evening of Performance: 5-8pm
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