Infra thin Projects (2004-2005) curated by Mark Beasely Overview Publications Events And Exhibitions Images Links "The possible, implying the becoming - the passage from one to the other takes place in the infra-thin." Marcel Duchamp Infra thin Projects, examines the limits and potential of the written and spoken word: a retreat to language or a call to arms. Adopting the mechanics of viral infection, the project exists between exhibitions, between spaces and over time. Infra thin Projects toured between London, Birmingham and Manchester. The possible is an infra thin: the writer requires the reader.
		Existential Territories (2008-2009) organised by Jeremy Akerman and Gavin Everall Overview Events And Exhibitions A series of six, monthly events that focus on artists’ writings, readings, discussion and debate. Themes include: artists’ publications, nomadism, cosmopolitanism, the avant-garde, transgression, power. The events prioritise work that carves out new territories and disrupts established forms. No consensus of practice is aimed for, rather these six events present a range of singular and contesting voices, including: Eileen Daly, Dan Fox, Maria Fusco, Robert Garnett, Stewart Home, Andrew Hunt, Nina Power, Clunie Reid, Lynne Tillman, and Mark Waugh.
		Book Works Projects/ Open House (1998-2001) Publish And Be Damned (1998-1999) curated by MATTHEW HIGGS Overview Publications Events And Exhibitions Book Works Projects/ Open House 1998-2001 gave three curators the opportunity to work in partnership with Book Works to commission, develop and promote innovative new practices and was initiated to encourage an active dialogue between artists and curators, and seek out new audiences. Publish And Be Damned is a series of four new publications.
		Book Works Projects/ Open House (1998-2001) access/excess (1999) curated by STEPHAN KALMÁR Overview Publications access/excess is a series of artists’ publications that attempt to locate the individual within a continually developing tangle of political, cultural, economic and technological systems: a ‘social architecture’ that determines our perception of reality, and therefore our behavior within it. The artists involved show that to occupy a position outside these [power-] structures and [controlling-] systems is as impossible as taking a position outside of society; the individual locked out of one system, will always and inevitably be locked into another one.
		Book Works Projects/ Open House (1998-2001) Warm Seas (2000) Curated by CRAIG MARTIN Overview Publications Events And Exhibitions Warm Seas was developed for the third and final year of Open House, by Craig Martin, who commissioned new books by Rainer Ganahl, Thomas Hirschhorn, Daniel Jewesbury and Christian Nold. Enveloping these divergent practices are modes of activity which investigate: the nature of how the individual operates in relation to the other person; collective formations; identity as a fluid, hybrid construct; the function of dialogical relations through group discussn; and commusnication-based practices. The publications have been accompanied by events in Bristol, London and Leeds.
		Opus Projects, (2002-2007) Overview Publications Events And Exhibitions Opus Projects is a flagship series for Book Works, funded by The Arts Council of England, Visual Arts: Publications and Recording Fund, and between 2002-2003 co-ordinated by Lisa Panting. The ambitions of the project were to develop, publish and distribute, with a publishing partner, a new series of high profile contemporary artists’ publications available to an international market. The presence on the international market was secured through partnership with D.A.P in the USA. The first four titles were co-published, and the range of partners reflected the diversity of trends, motivations and experiences within the field of contemporary art. The series continues to develop with new partners and distributors.
		Fabrications (2006-2009) Edited Gerrie van Noord Overview Publications Fabrications is a series of co-publishing projects published over three years
		Scape Specific curated by Sara Wajid Overview Publications Events And Exhibitions Images Scape Specific is a project curated by Sara Wajid for Book Works, which explores the evolution of a Muslim vernacular in the British landscape.