A celebration of artists’ publishing from across the U.K and Europe.

Friday (preview): 17:00 – 21:00
Saturday: 10:30 – 17:00
Sunday: 10:30 – 16:00

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Andrea Allen / Entitle Magazine
Bemojake
Boomkat
Bricks from the Kiln
Bronze Age
Ceremony Press
Chateau International
common-editions
COPY
Dan Szor & Jimmy Merris
Desire Press
Ditto Press
DIY YOUTH
DR.ME
Everyday Press
Fashion Art Direction, Manchester School of Art
FIMS, University of Salford
Four Corners Books
Ginny
Janina Sabaliauskaite, Jade Sweeting & Phyllis Christopher
Jane and Jeremy
Joe Devlin & David Mackintosh / Aye Aye Books
Keep it Complex
Kingsley Ifill
Kiosk
Long Distance Press
London Centre for Book Arts
Loose Joints
Lost Generation
MACK
Meanwhile Press
Mishka Henner & Liz Lock
The Modernist Society
Museums Press / A Plume
Nomadic Reading Room
Palm* Studios
Pilot Press
Pleats
Rare Mags
Rick Pushinsky & John Maclean
Rope Press
Rough Trade Books
Salt n Pepper Press
SEASON Zine
seeaseasea
Self Publish Be Happy
Serf
Setsuko
Snöar Press
Studio Operative
Tide Press
TRACE
BA Photography, The University of Huddersfield
Velvick & Speed & Murphy
Village International Table
Wired Press
Witty Kiwi

Bound Art Book Fair is an annual celebration of artists publishing from the UK and Europe, taking place for the second year at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The fair features stalls from independent and artist publishers alongside a free public programme of talks, workshops, music and new commissions. Bound seeks to contribute to and develop networks of engagement extending outside of London, with a specific focus on supporting projects and emerging practices in the North of England.

This year our programme pays particular attention to the press as a political and pedagogical tool. In an age of online activism, we will look at artists and activists developing pamphlets and print ephemera with renewed urgency, and politically-engaged projects that employ print as a vital component of their output. We will examine ways in which the stories and struggles of working people have been manifest in print form, and the ways the material qualities, processes and legacies of print activism have influenced contemporary artists and artworks. We will also look at recent publishing projects that give voice to marginalized communities or confront present injustices.

10.00am-11.30am
Breakfast Preview of Voting for Change at the Working Class Movement Library. Pastries and refreshments provided. This is an offsite event.

5:00pm-9:00pm
Book Fair Preview: Opening party with DJ’s Sofie K (NTS) and Gary Bratchford (Beat Boutique). Refreshments provided

11:00-11:30am
Aaron Guy will discuss his new commission developed in collaboration with the Working Class Movement Library
Gallery Four

11:00am-12:00pm
SEASON zine and the National Football Museum present Show & Tell: Remarkable Women’s Football Publications
SEASON zine founder Felicia Pennant and National Football Museum curator Belinda Scarlett embrace the National Football Museum’s Hidden Histories campaign by sharing previously undisplayed highlights from the museum’s Women’s Football collection and the latest issue of Pennant’s trailblazing football and fashion publication.
Grand Hall

12:15-1:15pm
Artist talk with Jamie Hawkesworth
Photographer Jamie Hawkesworth will discuss his recent work, spanning commercial commissions and personal work concerned with place, community and identity, such as his longstanding project on Preston Bus Station.
Grand Hall

1:30-2:30pm
Dan Szor & Steve Slocombe present Supersuper: How Not To Run a Magazine
Artist Dan Szor and editor Steve Slocombe will chart the rise and fall of the notoriously day-glo, hyper optimistic style magazine SuperSuper. SuperSuper was a kaleidoscopic snapshot of mid-2000s London that took its cues from Sleazenation, MySpace, Boombox and Wolfgang Tillmans, tearing up the rulebook in magazine design.
Grand Hall

1:30pm-3:00pm
A tie dye workshop with Keep it Complex
Keep It Complex is a collaborative and evolving organisation which confronts political issues through ideas and action. Members Margherita Huntley and Sarah Jury present a free tie dye t-shirt workshop, with t-shirts available to buy and take home.
Meeting Room One

3:00-4:00pm
Artist talk with Vanessa Winship
Photographer Vanessa Winship will present a lecture on her two celebrated projects she dances on Jackson and As Time Folds, followed by a book signing with MACK.
Grand Hall

4:15-4:45pm
Artist talk with Sam Blackwood
Sam Blackwood will discuss his exhibition Up To No Good, which explores the translation of imagery into sculpture with themes from working class British culture, and the relationship between the exhibition and Powerhouse, his first artists book published by Snöar Press.
Exhibition Space

11:00am-12:00pm
Phil Thornton presents Fanzine Culture: From The End to the Internet
“Writer, community worker and gobshite” Phil Thornton will present a talk charting the zine culture of the North West of England in the 1980s and 1990s.
Grand Hall

11:15am-12:15pm
Tour of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection
Curator Nikita Gill will deliver a tour of the Whitworth’s significant collection of Outsider Art – art that ‘tapped into the mains electricity of the imagination’ – focusing on artists publishing and works on paper.
Study Centre

11:30am-12:30pm
OOMK present Publishing Ecosystems
Sofia Niazi and Heiba Lamara from artist collective OOMK will discuss the highs and lows of setting up Rabbits Road Press, a community Risograph printing press, in 2017. Rabbits Road Press aims to make specialist printing facilities more accessible to the public and to help people take more control over the production of their work/publications. Since opening they’ve provided free or subsidised Risograph printing inductions to over 400 people, provided a regular arts space for people to use for free, commissioned new publications, delivered workshops to school groups and hosted a Riso Summer Residency programme.
Clore Learning Studio

12:00-1:00pm
Georgiou & Tolley present Ten.8 to L8: Consent & Control in the Age of Google
Artists Darryl Georgiou and Rebekah Tolley will consider their current practice in the context of community art and social engagement, linking it back to themes often explored in influential photographic journal Ten.8, of which Georgiou was formerly Director and picture editor.
Grand Hall

1:15-2:15pm
Janina Sabaliauskaite, Jade Sweeting and Phyllis Christopher present On Our Backs: An Archive/Show and Tell
Artists Janina Sabaliauskaite, Jade Sweeting and Phyllis Christopher will present a talk and slideshow discussing the exhibition On Our Backs: An Archive, which explored the legacy of On Our Backs, a radically sex-positive magazine for “the adventurous lesbian” launched in San Francisco in 1984. Phyllis will show archival photographic materials from the period and Jade & Janina will discuss On Our Backs’ influence on their artistic practices & current projects.
Grand Hall

2:30-3:30pm
Artist talk with Mishka Henner
Mishka Henner is a Belgian artist living and working in Manchester, England. His work has featured in several surveys of contemporary artists working with photography in the internet age. – ©Wikipedia
Grand Hall

3:45-4:00pm
Aaron Guy will close the programme with a performative manifestation of his recent research at the Working Class Movement Library.
Gallery Four