Co-hosted with Samantha Whetton during 2018–2019, with readings taken from the LCBA library and beyond.
We ran monthly sessions which mixed reading, discussion and experimental making to help us produce new creative work. Our sessions followed a reflexive cycle, with a rotating focus on reading, archiving and making.
The Readings
1)
Time in the Codex (from 'Nilling', Lisa Robertson).
Reading Bodies (from 'Reading and the Body', Thoman McLaughlin).
Self-Reflexivity in Book Form (from 'The Century of Artist Books', Johanna Drucker).
2)
The Scan and the Export (Sean Dockray, originally published in Fillip).
Political Failure, Temporal Drag and Feminist Nostalgia (from 'The Archival Turn in Feminism', Kate Eichhorn).
3)
'Some Notes on Books & Printing', Charles Jacobi.
(This session took the form of a workshop, following Charles Jacobi's advice on how to make an index).
4)
The introduction of 'Interacting With Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation', The Multigraph Collective
5)
'The Ballroom Archive Project', Ultra-Red Workbook no.1.
'Expand, Humanize, Simplify: An Interview with Sandy Berman' (Tina Gross, originally published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly).
6)
(This session took the form of a workshop, where we collectively made prototype bookforms based on the ideas of the previous 5 sessions).
7)
The introduction of 'The Feminist Bookstore Movement', Kristen Hogan.
'SHEBA: A Feminist Press in Britain' (Menika, Pratibha, Sue, Alice and Ravinder, originally published in off our backs)
8)
Feminist Book Swap ✌
Cover image by Ira Yonemura