Friday

6.00-8.00pm

Village presents: Is It All Gravy?

Village Books, Oldham Street, M4 1LN

In collaboration with Bound Art Book Fair & Duende, Village is proud to present their latest exhibition ‘IS IT ALL GRAVY?’.

Shahram Saadat documents the World Gravy Wrestling Championship 2024.

Exhibition runs from 27th November til 1st December.

villagebooks.co / @villagebooks.co / @ad_england

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7.00pm-late

BOUND X FILLER Joint Launch Party

70 Oldham Rd, Manchester M4 5EB

Join us for drinks, crisps, DJs and an exhibition at 𝐏𝟑 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒗𝒆 to raise a glass to Bound 2024 and Filler Zine Issue 8, featuring 30+ writers, cooks, researchers and artists responding to the theme of ‘the kitchen’. Crisps curated by @apacketaday

@fillerzine / @ad_england

Saturday

12.00pm-1.00pm

Ellen Mara de Wachter in conversation with Lillian Wilkie

Gallery 4

In her new book More Than the Eyes (Atelier Éditions/DAP), writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000, the book shows how we have become restricted by a hierarchy that values sight and reason above other senses, and how encounters with food in art can help us break this bind. This conversation will argue for putting food at the centre of the highly visual art world, exploring practices that quicken a range of sensations beyond visual perception.

ellenmaradewachter.com / atelier-editions.com

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2.00-3.00pm

Consumers and the Consumed: the rise and responsibility of indie food mags

Gallery Four

A panel with Hope Cunningham of Chicken+Bread, Osman Bari of Chutney Mag and Chris O’Leary of FatBoy Zine. This panel invites three leading food zine publishers to explore publishing practices that preserve the cultures, communities and contradictions of diasporic foodways, and the role of the printed page in the preservation of recipes and traditions. The panel will unpack the growing sociocultural consciousness regarding where our food comes from, what status it confers, why it costs what it does, who profits from it, who is cooking it, and what one should be seen eating on social media, as well as trends towards gastrocolonialism and appropriation.

chickenandbread.com / @chickenandbreadzine / chutneymag.com / @thechutneymag / fatboyzine.com / @fatboyzine /

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2.30-3.30pm

OFF SITE: There is nothing old under the sun book launch

13 Thomas St, Manchester M4 1EU

We are pleased to partner with esea contemporary for a panel discussion celebrating the launch of There is nothing old under the sun, a special publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition by Steph Huang. Huang transforms everyday spaces and objects into lyrical and playful sculptures that explore our consumption and production habits — their historical layers, transcultural movements, and environmental impact. This English-Chinese bilingual publication invites readers into Huang’s visual explorations and conceptual journeys, centred on a mode of drifting. The publication features images of Huang’s artworks and original photographs, complemented by writings from Xiaowen Zhu, Jo-Lene Ong, Ellen Mara De Wachter, and the artist. The discussion will bring together Steph Huang; Professor Allan Walker, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the School of Arts, Media, and Creative Technology at the University of Salford; Stephanie Fletcher, Assistant Curator of the University of Salford Art Collection; and arts writer Ellen Mara De Wachter, with moderation by Jo-Lene Ong, Curator at esea contemporary.

eseacontemporary.org / stephhuang.com

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3.30-4.30pm

Stone and Seed: a performance lecture by Mira Mattar

Gallery 4

When Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant declared on 9 October 2023 that there will be ‘No electricity, no food, no fuel’ in Gaza, it was the logical culmination of decades of severance and destruction of life and life-sustaining infrastructure. Palestine’s lands fall within the ‘Fertile Crescent’ – known for its rich soil, high rainfall, varied habitats, and proliferating biodiversity – which was cultivated for centuries before the Nakba. And yet, as a result of the annexation of agricultural lands and of the total blockade of Gaza since 2007, which strictly enforces controls on everything and everyone entering and exiting, an essential component of Zionist eradication efforts is the forced reliance of Palestinians on ‘aid’. In this performance lecture, author and poet Mira Mattar will explore the ways in which the use of starvation as a technology of genocide in Gaza is not a recent aberration but a continuation of long-standing efforts to erase Palestinian life.

@miramattar

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6.00-9.00pm

Village presents: Boot Mag Issue 02 launch

Village Books, Oldham Street, M4 1LN

BOOT is a contemporary photography, art and culture magazine from Sam Hutchinson. Issue 02 launches at this year’s Bound and features contributions from Jesse Glazzard, Sasha Chaika, Bruce La Bruce, Casper Kent, Brothtarn, Lily Bloom and Trees Heil. This launch event features works exhibited by Trees Heil from her series 'Room 01', and refreshments from Northern Monk.

villagebooks.co / @villagebooks.co / bootmag.world / @boot_mag

Sunday

11.00am-12.00pm

In Transit, On the Fly: a workshop with Joe Whitmore and Matt Martin

In Transit, on the Whitworth Gallery forecourt

OneDishRoom is a food project led by artist Joe Whitmore and co-developed with Standard Practice (AKA All Together Otherwise). On The Fly is a sold-out recipe book developed during the Covid pandemic that engaged users of organic vegetable supplier Veg Box People’s Instagram in polling, pitching that week’s veg against one another in a Ready Steady Cook-style format. The veg winners of these polls would be the key ingredient in recipes developed by OneDishRoom (though usually all the veg would be used, because it made sense). The book was therefore made during a time of profound physical disconnection, but a growing reconnection to home cooking.

The book plays with and subverts the conventions of recipe book publishing; it is divided into two halves, one with image and one with text, featuring a note taking section and wipeable cover, both wrapped in a tea towel and seasonal veg chart. In October 2021, the book was allegedly bootlegged by an eminent chef, restaurateur, and global food sensation, citing similarities in copy, design and artistic direction.

Drawing inspiration from this act, OneDishRoom invites you to ‘Nottolenghi’ your own cookbook using the last remaining copy of On The Fly and their cookbook collection. In collaboration with zine specialist Matt Martin and his traveling zine studio In Transit, and your own recipe collection or family archive, you will make your own book to keep or share.

@one_dish_room / @thephotocopyclub

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2.30-3.30pm

They Shall Not Starve: a panel with Craig Oldham, Aggie Currie and Rose Hunter

Gallery 4

Commemorating 40 years since the beginning of the miners’ strike, as well as an expanded and revised edition of Craig Oldham’s In Loving Memory of Work: A visual record of the UK Miner's Strike 1984-85, this panel will focus on the mutual aid work, food banks and soup kitchens pioneered by miner’s wives in northern England and Wales. Through ephemera, community photography, and personal reflections, Craig Oldham will explore the influential solidarity movement during the Miners’ Strike, and how the organisation of food parcels, community kitchens, and the legendary women’s movement, made the strike the longest industrial dispute in Britain’s history. This will be followed by a screening of the short film, Not Just Tea And Sandwiches, made by journalists at the time of the strike, and a panel discussion between two active members of the women’s movement, Aggie Currie and Rose Hunter.

Aggie Currie is a founding member of National Women Against Pit Closures (NWAPC) and her local chapter of Doncaster Women Against Pit Closures. Aggie raised funds for the strike and her family’s pit, Markham Main, and picketed nationally. She went to speak internationally on behalf of the women’s movement, and became well-known across the country for her down-to-earth speeches, tireless fundraising efforts and colourful language on the picket.

Rose Hunter is a member of the North Staffs Miners’ Wives Action Group (NSMWAG), a group formed by women of the ten food centres which were set up around the North Staffordshire coalfields. For the duration of the strike, the women were involved in building support, standing on picket lines, going on speaking tours, and organising collections, rallies, and events. When the strike ended, the group continued to support other struggles, including print workers at Wapping and the Liverpool Dockers amongst others, as well as anti-fascist and anti-deportation campaigns.

Craig Oldham has been named as one of the most influential designers working in the UK, and has written books on a range of topics including education, culture and politics. In Loving Memory Of Work: A Visual Record of the UK Miners’ Strike 1984-85, is his influential and award-winning book that is now in its third edition.

inlovingmemoryofwork.com / roughtradebooks.com / @officeofcraig