A launch for Wiebke Leister’s book
ECHOES & CALLINGS. A HANNYA MANIFESTO
was held at 9 Lower Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9DJ
on Thursday 13 July 2023with a performance by David Toop, Ania Psenitsnikova, Emi Watanabe, a short talk by Ashley Thorpe,
and readings from the book.
ECHOES & CALLINGS. A HANNYA MANIFESTO
was held at 9 Lower Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9DJ
on Thursday 13 July 2023with a performance by David Toop, Ania Psenitsnikova, Emi Watanabe, a short talk by Ashley Thorpe,
and readings from the book.
The George Goetchius and Donald Howarth Society of Friends Awards supported this event. For over a century, 9 Lower Mall has been occupied by people who have made their names in the arts and living in what has been described as queer-domesticity. Photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn, poet and editor Charles Kains-Jackson, theatre director George Devine, playwright Peter Gill, sociologist George Goetschius and playwright Donald Howarth, all worked and lived at 9 Lower Mall. In 2020 Donald Howarth bequeathed his estate to a charity to continue the life of the house as a resource for those in the arts and those living queer domesticities.
A launch event for Timothy Mathews’s THERE AND NOT HERE, CHRONICLES OF ART & LOSS, and Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing (Peter Lang 2021), edited by Florian Mussgnug, Mathelinda Nabugodi and Thea Petrou took, place on Thursday 9 March at the University of London. Speakers included: Florian Mussgnug, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Thea Petrou, Sharon Kivland, Timothy Mathews, Jenny Chamarette, Emily Orley, Delphine Grass, Clare Finburgh Delijani, John Schad and Clare Lees.
The recording may be viewed HERE.
The recording may be viewed HERE.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was back at PARIS ASS in June, this year held in the glasshouse heat of the Palais de Tokyo. The wonderful Bibliothèque Kandinsky acquired several books from the press for its collection, and we were all very pleased.
Isabella Streffen read from FABULAE. HOW IT BEGINS, with Tom Allen and Tobias Ryan, at AFTER 8, Paris, in March 2023. Later we saw Catherine Malabou in the restaurant where we had supper.
A book launch with six short readings New books from five authors were launched at the wonderful South London Gallery, organised by the fabulous book shop, on Wednesday 7 December, 2022.
Museums and echoes, brutal meditations and the
embrace of grief, flirtations with library indexes and forgotten catalogues, floating female bodies and silent protest, the condition of narrative and slippery radiance
Murdo Macdonald, Timothy Mathews, Adrian Rifkin,
Isabella Streffen, Simon Wortham
embrace of grief, flirtations with library indexes and forgotten catalogues, floating female bodies and silent protest, the condition of narrative and slippery radiance
Murdo Macdonald, Timothy Mathews, Adrian Rifkin,
Isabella Streffen, Simon Wortham
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at Paris Ass at the Fondation Lafayette in June. MOIST was at the next table, and there was gossiping as well as book sales
MA BIBILIOTHÉQUE was at Offprint London at Tate Modern in May 2022. Some authors turned up, as did quite a few pals. And a few books were sold.
OBJEKTOPHILIA by Susan Finlay
was launched at Donlon Books, 75 Broadway Market, London on Thursday 6 February, 2020.
Susan Finlay read from the opening chapter of her book, It was packed and the publisher stupidly did not bring enough books.
was launched at Donlon Books, 75 Broadway Market, London on Thursday 6 February, 2020.
Susan Finlay read from the opening chapter of her book, It was packed and the publisher stupidly did not bring enough books.
LA A DYBIRD by Rachel Cattlewas launched at Donlon Book, Broadway Market, London
Thursday 28 November, 2019.
Rachel Cattle read from her book. There was a small exhibition of her drawings, and the event was accompanied by a soundtrack of electronica by women, compiled with Steve Richards and Rachel Cattle.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at the Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London. on 15 & 16 November, 2019. The Small Publishers Fair is the annual gathering of small press publishers, writers, artists, poets and book designers. Sixty-five publishers from across the UK and around the world together with a featured exhibition,readings and talks in the historic Conway Hall, the centre of humanism and literary Bloomsbury.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at the SOUTH LONDON GALLERY on TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER for evening of readings celebrating the launch of The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein. This book collates contributions by artists, poets, critics, and philosophers speculating on a speech given by political radical Carl Einstein at a memorial for Rosa Luxemburg in 1919.
Readers: Uma Breakdown, (read by Jack Etches), Sophie Carapetian, Alison J. Carr, John Cunningham, Sam Dolbear, Rebekah Georgiou-Tolley, John Hyatt, Dale Holmes, Derek Horton, Sacha Kahir,Sharon Kivland, Pil Galia Kollectiv, Mark Leahy, Ed Luker, TC McCormack, Benjamin Noys, Benedict Seymour, Frank Wasser, Sarah Wood (read by Ali Smith)
.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE is PUBLISHER OF THE MONTH at the SOUTH LONDON GALLERY, October to December 2019
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at HOPSCOTCH BERLIN
Kurfurstenstr. 14 10785 Berlin on Thursday 13 June with readings from THE GRAVESIDE ORATIONS OF CARL EINSTEIN (eds Dale Holmes & Sharon Kivland)
Introduction by Dale Holmes
I. Geoffrey Wildanger, Sonja Burbidge (read by Irina Gheorghe), Hannes Bajohr (read by Donal Fitzpatrick), Betsy Porritt
II. Sean Bonney & Sacha Kahir, Declan Clarke, John Z. Komurki (read by Sean Smuda)
III. Christian A. Wollin, Ed Luker, Matthew Burbidge, Katharina Ludwig, Donal Fitzpatrick
IV. Sacha Kahir, Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko (extract, read by Sharon Kivland), Sharon Kivland, Spartakus
John Cunningham read four extracts from his essay in each of the sets above, There was birdsong and Susan Philipsz sang a lament.
Kurfurstenstr. 14 10785 Berlin on Thursday 13 June with readings from THE GRAVESIDE ORATIONS OF CARL EINSTEIN (eds Dale Holmes & Sharon Kivland)
Introduction by Dale Holmes
I. Geoffrey Wildanger, Sonja Burbidge (read by Irina Gheorghe), Hannes Bajohr (read by Donal Fitzpatrick), Betsy Porritt
II. Sean Bonney & Sacha Kahir, Declan Clarke, John Z. Komurki (read by Sean Smuda)
III. Christian A. Wollin, Ed Luker, Matthew Burbidge, Katharina Ludwig, Donal Fitzpatrick
IV. Sacha Kahir, Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko (extract, read by Sharon Kivland), Sharon Kivland, Spartakus
John Cunningham read four extracts from his essay in each of the sets above, There was birdsong and Susan Philipsz sang a lament.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at South London Gallery
Tuesday 8 May, 19 h to 22 h
Readings from recent MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE books by
Felicity Allen with Althea Greenan, David Berridge, Isobel Wohl, Joseph Noonan-Ganley with Carl Gent & Virgil B/G Taylor, Sharon Kivland with Arnaud Desjardin & Benjamin Rhodes
Tuesday 8 May, 19 h to 22 h
Readings from recent MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE books by
Felicity Allen with Althea Greenan, David Berridge, Isobel Wohl, Joseph Noonan-Ganley with Carl Gent & Virgil B/G Taylor, Sharon Kivland with Arnaud Desjardin & Benjamin Rhodes
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at OFFPRINT, Tate Modern, 17 to 19 May
On Saturday 18 May, readings from recent MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE books by David Berridge, Kate Briggs, and Isobel Wohl
On Saturday 18 May, readings from recent MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE books by David Berridge, Kate Briggs, and Isobel Wohl
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at HOPSCOTCH BERLIN
Kurfurstenstr. 14 10785 Berlin on Saturday 4 May
Readings from recent MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE books by
Felicity Allen, with Althea Greenan. David Berridge, Isobel Wohl, Joseph Noonan-Ganley with Jack Hogan & Sean Smuda, Sharon Kivland with Francis Haselden & Christian Wollin
Kurfurstenstr. 14 10785 Berlin on Saturday 4 May
Readings from recent MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE books by
Felicity Allen, with Althea Greenan. David Berridge, Isobel Wohl, Joseph Noonan-Ganley with Jack Hogan & Sean Smuda, Sharon Kivland with Francis Haselden & Christian Wollin
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at MISS READ, BERLIN, 2019
People kept trying to leave their coats with us. We said they could if they bought a book.
People kept trying to leave their coats with us. We said they could if they bought a book.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was at the Dostoevsky Wannabe Indie Book Fair in association with the Contemporary Small Press project at the University of Westminster. on Saturday 19 October, 2019. The fair featured Prototype Publishing, The 87 Press (sharing with Pamenar Press), Ma Bibliotheque, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Influx, Open Pen, And Other Stories, Bookworks, Les Fugitives, Fitzcarraldo, Boiler House Press, Hotel, Green Bottle Press, Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers, Silver Press, Source Mag, Gallic Books, Arachne Press, Nightjar, Tilted Axis, and Information as Material.
A good time was had by all.
A good time was had by all.