Image courtesy MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE
Join us for a book launch hosted by MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, a not-for-profit publishing project by the artist and writer Sharon Kivland.
At the SLG on 4 Dec, readings of linguistic play, political uncertainties and faggy gestures, rigorous indecency, and wicked reflection celebrate new books from four authors:
Part I
18.50 Iris Colomb, WHERE DO YOU BEGIN IN THIS
Iris Colomb is a poet, artist, curator, editor, lecturer, and translator. She builds connections between visual and verbal forms of text through performance, book objects, improvisation, and experimental translation.
19.10 Sam Dolbear, HAND THAT TELL THIS FORTUNE WILL. A THEORY AND HISTORY OF HAND-READING. AFTER CHARLOTTE WOLFF
Sam Dolbear’s research addresses the life and work of Walter Benjamin and those around him. He has taught and published widely, including, with Esther Leslie, Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th Century (2023). He is a co-founder of the sound and radio collective MayDay Radio.
Part II
19.50 Joseph Noonan-Ganley, THE CESSPOOL OF RAPTURE. ARTIST’S TEXTS 2012–2024
Joseph Noonan-Ganley’s videos, sculpture, photography, textiles, and writing explore how identity is collaboratively made by openly manipulating the leftover material from other people’s work and experience. His video installation Our Bed was exhibited at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, and shortlisted for the CIRCA Prize, in 2023. The Cesspool of Rapture, 2017––was included in GAZE film festival at the Irish Film Institute, Dublin, 2023.
20.10 Louise O’Hare, CENTREFOLD 1974. A MEMOIR
Louise O’Hare is a researcher specialising in early years and social policy, based in Tower Hamlets, London. She is an organiser of Post Pandemic Childcare coalition, and part of the On the Record childcare oral histories project. She was an associate editor at Afterall from 2013 to 2017, co-curated ‘Safe’ at HOME, Manchester, in 2015, and founded the London Bookshop Map in 2011 as a platform to disseminate writing by artists.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Titles will be available to purchase on the night.
This event is free, but booking is advised.
In the South London Gallery Bookshop you’ll find a curated selection of books, magazines, artists’ editions, stationery and gifts. The Bookshop is committed to highlighting independent publishers and championing reading across all ages.
ABOUT MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE is a not-for-profit project by the artist and writer Sharon Kivland. The publications are modest yet attractive, and constitute her library, based on her purchase of a hundred ISBN numbers. In her role as The Editor, she invites authors she considers to be good readers, whom she would like to house in her library or to become her library, inhabited. She agrees with Nabokov that a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader, is a re-reader. She knows her writers and they know her, even when they have not yet met. They have read each other, or believe themselves to have done so. They are flirtatious, ruffling pages. She promises to do her best. The best is reading.
ACCESS
- This event will be a mix of seated and standing room. Please contact mail@southlondongallery.org if you need to arrange a seat.
- Wheelchair Access and Disabled Toilets are available at this site.
- For any other access requirements please email nadia@southlondongallery.org