The Cast of the Crystal Set Record Launch
Matt's Gallery
Friday 3 March 2017

The Cast of the Crystal Set
Published by X Marks the Bökship
Order record for £10

Post Internet Cafe
Print Room, Rotterdam
15 July - 10 September 2016
@CafePost

JUNE 2 0 1 6

Towards a New Publishing House, ICA
17 June 2016

Miss Read, The Berlin Book Fair
10 - 12 June 2016

Publishing as Practice, Book launch
Panel Presentations chaired by Eleanor Vonne Brown, featuring Hannes Bajoh, Annette Gilbert
Michalis Pichle, Pia Christmann & Ann Richter, Eva Weinmayr

MAY 2 0 1 6

Friday 20 - Sunday 22 May 2016
OffPrint Art Publishing Fair, Tate Modern

Table Share
X Marks the Bökship is sharing their table at Offprint with Publication Studio and:
EU-UK, UNSEEN magazine, Denise Hawrysio, Tim Batten, Behind the X, Test Centre, Strange Attractor

APRIL 2 0 1 6

X Marks the Bökship and Matt's Gallery are moving out of 42 -44 Copperfiled Road at the end of April.

Saturday 2 April 2016, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Artists’ Billboard Commission: Angus Braithwaite

Saturday 23 April 2016, 6pm - End
Artists Behind Bars

M A R C H 2 0 1 6

Launch of Aesthetic Indifference by Lisa Penny
Saturday 5 March 2016, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Performance at 7.30pm

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 6

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 6 - 8.30pm
Artist Billboard: Jim Woodall

J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 6

Friday 29 January 2016, 8pm - late
Artists' behind bars at the Horse Hospital

Why don't you... billboard by Mark Pawson

D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5

Friday 11– Sunday 13 December 2015
Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 5

Wednesday 4 - Friday 6 November 2015
Workshop at Hochschule für Künste / University of the Arts Bremen, Germany

Wednesday 11 November, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Launch of Inflection Sandwich by David Osbaldeston

Friday 13 November, 6.30– 9pm
Launch of A Digital Suicide by Liam Scully

Saturday 21 November, 4 – 7pm
Launch of G.S.O.H. The Rest is Dark, The Rest is Dark series by Book Works.
With Clunie Reid, Jennet Thomas, Maija Timonen, and Head Galley

Billboard by Clunie Reid

O C T O B E R 2 0 1 5

Friday 2 October 2015, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of Schizm Magazine Issue Eight

Saturday 10 - Friday 23 October 2015
Reading with hands in pockets - an intercalation by Sophie Loss 

Thursday 15th October 2015, 7-9pm
Virgil's Birthday An event of poetry, performance and speech acts.

Saturday 24 October 2015, 5 - 7pm
Leading Actors N-Z and Character Actresses A-K, The Spotlight Project by Denise Hawrysio

Billboard by Denise Hawrysio

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 5

Saturday 6 September 2015
Space / Time Festival, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

Friday 18 September 2015, 6.30 - 8.30pm
Better become blowing backbeat blanket
Billboard and artists' books by Merike Estna

Friday 25th September 2015, 6.30- 8.30pm 
Launch of Transactions of the Duddo Field Club by William Cobbing 

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18 June – 14 August 2015
The Cast of the Crystal Set
Recordings by artists & audio publishing

The Crystal Set is an evolving structure oscillating between a sound booth for recording and a stage for live listening events. This summer it will host a series of recording sessions, workshops and broadcasts from a cast of artists & publishers including: Test Centre, Paul Buck, Marcia Farquhar, Disembodied Voice Research Group, Drawing Room Confessions, Jenny Moore, Maria Guggenbichler & Amal Alhaag, Chris Wood, Typography Summer School, Sinkhole & more.

A U G U S T 2 0 1 5

Publisher of the Month: Sinkhole

Saturday 1 August
SUPER WOOFER
Sound Fair & Summer Party

Billboard: Roy Voss

J U L Y 2 0 1 5

Publisher of the Month:
Drawing Room Confessions
Saturday 4 July
Live Listening Event, 5 – 8pm

Wednesday 8 July
“You can't win them all, ladies and gentlemen: Quality”
Jenny Moore & Guests
Live Radio Show, 7.30pm

Wednesday 15 – Saturday 18 July
Bookable Studio Sessions

Monday 20 – Friday 24 July
Typography Summer School

Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 July
DJ Workshop for Women
Workshop with Maria Guggenbichler & Amal Alhaag

J U N E 2 0 1 5

Publisher of the Month June: Test Centre
Wednesday 3 June 2015
Launch of {Enthusiasm by SJ Fowler}
Published by Test Centre

Vox Box
Marcia Farquhar
Juke Box in the Bookshop

Thursday 18 June
Man Made Structures and The Disembodied Voice
Talk, 6 – 8pm

Thursday 25 June
HAVE A NO: Spread the Spoken Word
Live Event, 7 – 10pm

Saturday 27 June
Dial Stories
Writing & FM Radio Workshop with sound artist Chris Wood, 12 – 7pm

Tuesday 30 June
Paul Buck's Pressed Curtains Tapes
Test Centre Launch and Listening Event, 7 – 9pm

M A Y  2 0 1 5

Artists' Billboard: Jeremy Deller for Vote Art

Saturday 2 May 2015, 2pm
Melbourne Art Book Fair: International Symposium on The Art of Independent Publishing

Thursday 7 May 2015, 6 - 9pm
Champagne Socialist Bar: First Thursday at Matt's Gallery and Bökship late night opening.

Saturday 16 May 2015, 7pm - 9pm
Artist Novels. The Book Lovers Publication
Book Launch with David Maroto & Joanna Zielińska in conversation
with Gareth Long and Lindsay Seers.

Interstitial Zone
Wednesday 20 May - Saturday 23 May, 12-6pm
Curators’ workshop, Thursday 21 May, 4-6pm

A P R I L  2 0 1 5

The bookshop is open as usual from 1st April, Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm.

M A R C H  2 0 1 5

X Marks the Bökship is reopening at Matt's Gallery on Sunday 29 March 2015, 2 - 5pm alongside the next Matt's Gallery exhibition of artist Matt Stokes ' Madman in a Lifeboat'.

XAUDIO: X Marks the Bökship in converstaion with Patrick Goddard about Operation Paperclip.

F E B R U A R Y  2 0 1 5

Friday 5 February 2015, 2.30 - 6pm
Zines and Scenes
Rupert Educational Program, Vilnius

Thursday 12 February 2015, 6.30pm
Reading Exercises
CAC Reading Room, Vilnius

J A N U A R Y  2 0 1 5

January 2015
XArchive at Rupert Reading Room, Vilnius

D E C E M B E R  2 0 1 4

XAUDIO: X Marks the Bökship in converstaion with Laure Prouvost about The Artist Book.

Wednesday 10 December, 7pm 
I’ve Never Read Her book club. Reading: Caryl Churchill - Cloud 9

Thursday 4 December 2014, 6 - 9pm
Launch of Allotrope Press edition thirteen 
'Loughton to Lambourne End'
Yuki Nishimura

Wednesday 3 December 2014, 7pm
Publication as Practice #6: Open Books, Volume E, Final draft
Organised by Charlotte Cheetham and Sophie Demay.

N O V E M B E R  2 0 1 4

Friday 28 November 2014, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of The Visual Event
An Education in Appearances
Edited by Oliver Klimpel
Published by Spector Books

Saturday 23 November 2014
Three Letter Words Book Fair

Thursday 21 November 2014
RCA Test Run Distribution Workshop

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 7pm
Publication as Practice# 5. Fragmentation of Time and Space
Jarosław Kozłowski
Listen to talk  

Fragmentation of Time and Space
The Art Books of Jarosław Kozłowski 
19 November  - 14 December 2014

Sunday 16 November 2014, 2 - 5pm
Launch of “REALITY” by Jarosław Kozłowski (1972)
3rd Printing 2014, Matt’s Gallery / X Marks the Bökship 

Friday 14 November & Saturday 15 November 2014, 11am – 7pm
Small Publishers Fair 2014

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 7pm  
I've Never Read Her book club. Reading: Hito Steyrl – In Defense of the Poor Image

O C T O B E R  2 0 1 4

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 7pm
Publication as Practice II # 4: I start from the image of an end : A conversation around "It’s moving from I to It – The Book"
FormContent

Sunday 26 October 2014, 4 – 7pm
Book launch of ‘Where Is That Light Now’?
By Paul O’ Kane
Published by eeodo

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 7pm
Publication as Practice II # 3: Performance as Publishing
Nicole Bachmann and Ruth Beale

Wednesday 15 October, 7pm
I've Never Read Her book club. Reading: Sophia al Maria – The Girl Who Fell to Earth

Friday 17 October 2014
Student Visit

Sunday 12 October 2014, 2 – 5pm
Launch of Toponym
By Lia Na’ama ten Brink
Published by LemonMelon 2014

3 October – 9 November 2014
XArchive, Cardiff
The Stute, Cardiff Contemporary

Wednesday 1 October 2014, 7pm
Publication as Practice II # 2: A dead man speaks
James Langdon 
Talk starts at 7.15pm

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4

Saturday 27 September 2014, 6 – 9pm
Launch of X-Operative Book
Published by X Marks the Bökship, 2014

Wednesday 17 September 2014, 7pm
Publication as Practice II # 1: Learn to Read Differently  
Simon Morris 

Wednesday 10 September, 7pm
‘I’ve never read her’ book club reading: 
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli

A U G U S T  2 0 1 4

Wednesday 6 August 2014, 7pm
‘I’ve never read her’ book club reading short fiction and essays by women.
Reading: The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein

Thursday 14 August 2014, 7 – 9pm
Launch of The White Review. No.11

J U L Y 2 0 1 4

Sunday 6 July 2014, 4 – 8pm
Unsettled By And Open To
Shady Dealings with Language

Goldsmith Art Writing Library
A new section has been created for the Library with books from X Marks the Bökship.

J U N E 2014

9 June 2014
Launch of Margaret at BCU
By Art and Design Students at Bimingham City Universtity
Project with X Marks the Bökship

2 – 18 June 2014
Invite Only
Post degree publishing project with CSM students on invitation cards and mailouts

X Marks the Bökship opens new space at Matt’s Gallery
42 – 44 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR

Saturday 21 June 2014, 7 – 9pm
Launch of Operation Paperclip by Patrick Goddard

M A Y 2 0 1 4

XARCHIVE: Arnhem
A collection of books launched at X Marks the Bökship between 2008 – 2014 have been lent to the library at Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, NL. http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/

6 – 8 May 2014
Test Run Print Room
Modern Art Oxford

Saturday 31 May 2014
Launch of Salt Newspaper a publishing project with students from CSM
Whitstable Biennale

A P R I L 2 0 1 4

Thursday 3 April 2014, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of A School for Design Fiction by James Langdon

Published by Spector Books, 2014

Wednesday 9 April 2014, 7pm
'I've never read her' book club reading short fiction and essays by women.
 Reading 'Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women' edited by Ruth Ozeki.

Thursday 10 April 2014, 6.30 – 9pm
Original Risographies by Studio Operatve and Work Form

Saturday 12 April 2014, 6.30 – 8.30pm
EAT ME
Bökship Writer-in-Residence Rebecca Jagoe and Daniella Valz Gen present two new readings.

Thursday 17 April 2014, 7 - 9pm
"To and for AT /October 2013/the seed in the chain of thoughts/calling up the spirit of the infinite /endless/equations/renamed March 2014"
A new performance by Clare Gasson.

Friday 18th April 2014, 7 – 9pm

Launch of E.R.O.S: MAN

Saturday 19 April 2014, 6pm – END
X, A Kiss Goodbye Closing Party.

M A R C H 2 0 1 4

Tuesday 11 March 2014, 11 – 5pm
Print class at Bökship

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 7pm
'I've never read her' book club reading short fiction and essays by women.
Reading The Female Body by Margret Atwood

Thursday 13 March 2014

Workshop 3 – 5pm. 
Live event 6.30 – 8.30pm
Optics of writing: through and between
.

Tuesday 18 March 2013, 11 – 5pm
Print class at Bökship

Thursday 20 March 2014
Workshop 2 – 5pm,
 Live event 6.30 – 8.30pm

Optics of writing: Out of sight


Wednesday 26 March, 6.30 – 8.30

Launch of Flat White Wall Machine. Published by Fictional Address

Thursday 27 March, 8pm

The Erotic Book Club. 
Reading The Poetry of Sex
 by Sophie Hannah

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 4

Thursday 6 February 2013, 11-1pm
Artist Postcard talk and workshop with Camberwell Book Arts

Friday 7th February, 3 -5pm, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Optics of writing: doing [the thing] not describing [it]

Saturday 8 February 2014, 3- 5pm
Artist Postcard Workshop
 with Mark Pawson

Thursday 13 February 2014, 7pm
'I've never read her' book club reading short fiction and essays by women.
'The Year of Magical Thinking – The Play' and 'After Life' by Joan Didion.

Saturday 15 February 2014, 3 – 5pm
Launch of SCHLAUE MÄNNER KUNST / CLEVER MEN'S ART

Friday 21 February 2014, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Launch of The Foreigners Stand Still By Seb Patane

Thursday 27 February 2014, 8pm

The Erotic Book Club is back! 
Reading TAMPA by Alissa Nutting

Friday 28 February 2014, 7 – 9 pm
Launch of The Junk Ships on Alibaba by Joanne McNeil

J A N U A R Y  2 0 1 4

Wednesday 8 January 2014, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her ‘ Book Club Reading Short Fiction and Essays by Women
Language and Gender

Saturday 11 January 2014, 6 – 9pm
Launch of L.I.E LISTS OF TEN BOOKS
Published by Library of Independent Exchange

Thursday 23 January to 1 March 2014
The Postcard is a Public Work of Art
Exhibition of artists' postcards


Wednesday 29 January 2014, 7 – 9pm
Launch of To Have and To Hold Issue 4 Expanded

Thursday 30 January 2014, 7 – 8.30pm

Talk: Métier, Small Businesses in London
In conversation with Laura Braun, Dawn Lyon and Karen McQuaid

D E C E M B E R  2 0 1 3

Thursday 5th December 2013, 6 - 9 pm
Launch of OBJETS MINCES Part 2
Published by La Houle Editions

Friday 6 December 2013, 2pm
Conversation with Peter Bi’lak, Volume Artist Book Fair, Birmingham

Friday 6 – Saturday 7 December  2013
Volume Artist Book Fair, Birmingham

Wednesday 11 December 2013, 7pm
I’ve never read her’ Book Club reading short fiction and essays by women
Reading Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen

Friday 13 December 2013, 6 -9pm
Launch of A Strange Cross Between a Butcher’s Shop and a Nightclub
Published by Behind the X

Saturday 14 December 2013, 3 – 5pm
Reading & Writing
Launches, Readings & Performances at X-Operative, Wysing Arts Centre

N O V E M B E R  2 0 1 3

Thursday 7 November – Sunday 10 November 2013
Motto @ Bökship
A temporary bookstore

Thursday 7 November 2013, 6 – 9pm
The Significance of the Photographic Image in a Filmic Context 
By Paulius Petraitis. Published by TLTRPreß

Saturday 16 November, 5 – 8pm
X-Operative Opening, Wysing Arts Centre
Performances by Keef Winter and Lucy Woodhouse

17 November – 20 December 2013
X-Operative, Wysing Arts Centre
Adam Burton, Sophie Demay, Rory Macbeth, Beatriz Olabarrieta and Keef Winter

26 November 2013, 5 -7pm
Publication Workshop
Circuit, Wysing Arts Centre

Friday 29 November 2013, 5 -8pm
Launch of TURNINGS | FSSMTWTF

Friday 21 - Friday 29 November 2013
Print Shop residency: Victor & Hester

Saturday 30 November 2013, 1 – 4pm
Day of Exchange @ Wysing Arts Centre
Publishers Lunch, Alternative Models of Distribution Think Tank

O C T O B E R  2 0 1 3

Tuesday 1 October 2013, 10.30pm
Artists’ Records, Abject Bloc, Resonance FM

Thursday 3 October 2013, 3pm
Student Visit, Reitveld Academie

Saturday 12 October 2013, 7 -9pm
Launch of E.R.O.S Journal: Women

Thursday 17 October 2013, 8pm
Evanescent Continents ) One hour of listening (

Saturday 19 October, 7 – 9pm
Launch of Slide Shows curated by Charlotte Cheetham
Published by Fillip

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Launch of With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form by Maria Fusco
Published by New Documents

Friday 25 October 2013, 6-9pm
Launch of QGJCPLB
Published by Goldsmiths University with FormContent

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 6.30-8.30pm
Double Launch: Flatness and the Manual Labours Manual

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 11 -1pm
Crowd Talks, Kingston University

S E P T E M B E R  2 0 1 3

Saturday 14 September 2013, 6 – 10.30pm 
X100
An exhibition of books from 100 launches at X Marks the Bökship, 2008 – 2013

Saturday 14 September 2013, 6 – 9pm
Launch of MAN AARG! By David Berridge
Published by No Demand, X Marks the Bökship

Thursday 19 – 22 September 2013
Miss Read Artist Book Fair, Berlin

Sunday 22 September 2013
Conceptual Writing Symposium, Miss Read, Berlin

Monday 30 September 2013, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of Untitled (September magazine) By Paul Elliman
Published by The Vanity Press and Roma Editions

A U G U S T 2013

Friday 2 August 2013
Typography Summer School. Project: X Marketing the Bökship

Thursday 1 August 2013, 7 - 9pm
The Eterphilious Society. Confidentiality and Confession

Saturday 31 August 2013
Artist Record Stall
Space Time Music Festival, Wysing Arts Centre

J U L Y 2013

Friday 5 July 2013, 6 – 9pm
Launch of ‘Unreal’, debut Album by Hebronix and EGG010 Motor Manual by Daniel Blumberg
Published by All Tommorrows Parties.

Sunday 7 July 2013, 5 – 8pm
‘You Supper’ prepared and hosted by Manuela Barczewski.

Wednesday 10 July 2013, 6 - 9pm
Launch of This Book is a Classroom
A publication about art education, self-organised institutions, and circular communication; edited and devised by Lucie Kolb & Romy Rüegger, Passenger books and HIT

Thursday 11 July, 2013, 5.30pm
Art Licks tour

Thursday 11 July, 2013, 7pm
‘I’ve never read her’ book club. Short fiction and essays by women.
Reading A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney

Friday 12 July 2013, 8pm
Songs for reading into. Part 3: Simon Clark

Thursday 17 July, 7pm at Banner Repeater
Google and the World Brain
BR film screening followed by Q & A with the director and the Publisher Forum reading group

Thursday 18th July 6 – 9pm
Schizoanalysis and Schizotrategy
Artist Talk: Plastique Fantastique with Oreet Ashery and John Cussans

Saturday 20 July, 5pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group and Copeland Book Market

Friday 26 July 2013, 6 – 9pm
Launch of ‘I can be yours’ by Keef Winter

J U N E 2013

Publisher of the Month

Fernand Baudin Prize 2012 for the most beautiful books in Brussels and Wallonia

Saturday 1 June 2013, 7pm
Daniel James Wilkinson 'Printed Matter' finesage.

Saturday 8 June 2013, 4 – 6pm
The Fernand Baudin Prize 2012
Exhibition of prize-winning books from Brussels and Wallonia and catalogue launch

Tuesday 4 June – Friday 14 June
‘Not a catalogue’ publishing project with Central St Martins BA Fine Art

Monday 10 June 2013, 11 – 5pm
Love in the Morning, Magic in the Afternoon
Goldsmiths MFA one -day semina at X Marks the Bokship

Saturday 15 June, 4pm
Fernand Bauding Prize talk
Phil Baines talks with Leen Voet and Inge Ketelers and Michaël Bussaer about prize-winning book Felix.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 7pm
Fernand Baudin Prize talk
Matthew Butcher talks with Manuela Dechamps Otamendi on prize-winning book Post-City.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 7pm
Film screening of Stealing A Nation, by John Pilger
Organaised by Adam Burton

Thursday 20 June 2013, 6 - 9pm
Propono, launch of publishing projects by CSM fine art students
Organised by Eva Weinmayr

Saturday 22 June 2013, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Groove Script Rachel Cattle & Steve Richards

Sunday 23 June 2013, 2pm at Xero, Kline & Comma
Talk with Mark Pawson at Unboxing

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 6 – 9pm
Round table with YEAR 13 authors: Sonia Dermience, David Evrard, Alberto García del Castillo.
Special tribute to Ellen Cantor

Thursday 27 June 2013, 6 – 9pm
READING A YEAR: Performance/reading and launch of YEAR 13
Gérard Meurant, Douglas Park. Sonya Dermience, Alberto García del Castillo

M A Y 2013

Publisher of the Month
Daniel James Wilikinson

Thursday 2 May 2013, 6.30– 9pm
Launch of the second serial of Project Paper
Edited by Ana Schefer and Teófilo Furtado

Saturday 4 May 2013, 6 – 9pm
Opening of ‘Printed Matter’ by Daniel James Wilkinson

Monday 12 May 2013, 11 - 5pm
Publishing Project with CSM BA Fine Art

Friday 17 May 2013, 8pm
Songs for reading into. Part 2: Sam Steer

Thursday 13 June 2013, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club. Short Fiction and Essays by Women
Reading The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula J Le Guin

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 6.30 – 9pm
Publishing workshop and launch of 19 PAGES with Kingston MFA students

Saturday 18 May 2013, 2 - 4pm at Calvert 22
A poster workshop led by Hato Press and X Marks the Bökship
Looking at historical production techniques, local street posters, anarchist pamphlets and manifestos.

Friday 24 May 2013, 6.00 – 9pm
Launch of How Buildings Kill. Published by Tombstone Press
Ken Hollings Talk 7pm

Thursday 30 May 2013, 6.30-9pm
Launch of ‘We Were Trying to Make Sense… Exploring Artist and Non-artist Collaborations’

A P R I L 2013

Publisher of the Month Broken Dimanche Press

Writers Blöc

Tuesday 2 April 2013, 7 – 9pm
Talk: Failure, A Writer’s Life by Joe Milutus

Saturday 6 April 2013, 6 – 9pm
Publisher of the Month
Broken Dimanche Press
7.30pm Reading from Five Potential BDP Books by John Holten

Thursday 11 April / Friday 12 April 2013
Bökship Talk and Publisher's Lunch, Werkplaats Typografie / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts

Saturday 13 April 2013, 6 – 8pm
Launch of Young, Fresh and Relevant an evening of performances and readings

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 7 – 9pm at X Marks the Bökship
Publishing Forum Reading Group.
Reading The Social Life of The Book SLOB #02 Moyra Davey, The Wet and the Dry & SLOB # 03 Louis Luthi, Infant A

Thursday 18 April 2013, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club of short fiction and essays by women
Reading Pussy, King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker,1996.

Friday 19 April 2013, 4pm
Art Licks Tour

Thursday 25 April 2013, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club 4th Birthday: Erotica Imitating Art Writing Challenge

Friday 26 April 2013, 4 – 5pm
4 days, Arnolfini, Bristol
David Berridge and Eleanor Vonne Brown in conversation

Saturday 27 April 2013, 6 – 9pm
Launch of NOOO by Nathan Witt

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 10 - 4pm
Print Workshop, Risograph Printing

M A R C H 2 0 1 3

XAUDIO

Saturday 2 March 2013, 11 – 7pm
Publish and be Damned Book Fair, ICA, London
X Marks the Bökship brings the Sounds of the Bökship to the table with XAUDIO.

Thursday 7 March 2013
Print Workshop, Illustration department, Birminghman City University students

Saturday 9 March 2013, 6 – 9pm
Launch of artist monograph by Ludovica Gioscia

Friday 8 March 2013, 8pm
Launch of Works That Work Magazine
Peter Bil’ak will present WordsThat Work magazine, and ideas behind it.

Wednesday 13 March 7-9pm
Publishing Forum: reading group at X Marks the Bökship
Reading Artists ‘ Magazines, An Alternative Place for Art by Gwen Allen

Thursday 14 March 2013, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club of short fiction and essays by women
Reading Ethan Frome by Evelyn Wharton

Friday 15 March 2013, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Triggered Sound published by Palaver Press

Friday 22 – Sunday 24 March 2013
Artists Print Book Fair. Komplot, Brussels

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 7pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group at Banner Repeater
Reading an extract from Counter Intelligence by Mark Pawson

Thursday 28 March 2013, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club
Reading Delta Venus by Anais Nin

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 3

Publisher of the Month
Temporay Services

Wednesday 6 February 2013, 7 – 9pm
Publishing Forum: Reading Group at X Marks the Bökship
Reading Post-Digital Print, The Mutation of Publishing since 1894

Thursday 7 February 2013
Bökship Talk and 1-2-1s at Eastside Projects, Birmingham

Friday 8 February 2013, 7 – 9pm
 

Launch of The Institute of Our Love in Disrepair by Sophie Robinson

Published by Bad Press, 2012

Friday 15 February, 2013, 6 - 9pm
Launch of Jonny on a Chorizo by Paul Haworth
Published February 2013 by TRUE TRUE TRUE

Saturday 16 February, 2013, 12.30 – 9pm
Audio book installation and launch of ‘a day without olives is like a day’ by Jack Piers Scott
Published by Corporeal

Thursday 21 February 2013, 7 – 9pm
Talk by Temporary Services
Temporary Services will be talking about their publishing history and the current terrain for artist book publishing after the financial meltdown of 2008.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 7 – 9pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group at Banner Repeater
Reading International Art English

Thursday 28 February 2013, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club
Reading Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

J A N U A R Y 2013

Thursay 9th January 2013, 7pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group at X Marks the Bökship
Reading Liner Notes. Conversations about Making Books. i.e. Leipzig
Published by Spector Books

Thursday 10th January 2013, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club of short fiction and essays by women
Reading The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

Thursday 17 January 2013, 2pm
Bökship Talk at LCC with And Publishing to 1st year photography students

Wednesday 23rd January 2013, 7pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group at Banner Repeater
Reading Intellectual Property by By N. Stephen Kinsella

Thursday 31 January 2013, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club
Reading The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

Thursday 31 January 2013
Bökship Talk at Belfast Exposed, N. Ireland
X Marks the Bokship on Arts Extra BBC Radio Ulster

D E C E M B E R 2012

Publisher of the Month
Apparent Extent

Saturday 01December 2013, 11am – 7pm
DREAM/RE-DREAM
Apparent Extent and X Marks the Bökship present Christian Jendreiko action



Thursday 6 December 2012, 7 - 9pm
Talk and Workshop: The History of Vinyl / How to press an artists' record

Saturday 8 December 2012, 7 -9pm
Launch of A Circular: Issue 2

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 7 -9pm
Launch of Theatre of Objects with evening of perfomances

Wednesday12 December 2012, 7 – 9pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group at Banner Repeater
Reading The Fox Issue 1 (1975) republished by The Everyday Press 2012

Thursday 13 December 2013, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club of short fiction and essays by women
Watching Orlando by Virginia Woolf, diretced by Sally Potter

Friday 14 December 2012, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Misery Connoisseur magazine

Thursday 20 December 2012, 7 – 9pm
Arists’ Talk “Songs & Clouds”
Olaf Nicolai Escalier du Chant (Songs) and Helmut Völter Cloud Studies (Clouds).

N O V E M B E R 2012

Publisher of the Month
Spector Books

Thursday November 3 2012, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Here and There Vol.11. Ed. Nakako Hayashi
Launch of 2012 by Merike Estna
Launch of new issues of Me and My Friends by Jenny Moore, Susan Taylor, Betsy and Sam Porritt and Anna Kanai

Thursday 8 November 2012, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club of short fiction and essays by women
Reading On War by Susan Sontag

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 7pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group at Banner Repeater Reading
Words to be Looked at. Language in 1960s Art by Liz Kotz

Thursday 15 November 2012, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of Da Thirst

Thursday 22 November 2012, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Sounds Like Silence. John Cage – 4’33” – Silence Today
Talk by Spector Books

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 7pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group at Fiona Banner Studio Reading Graphic Design, History in the Writing. Published by Occasional Papers

Thursday 29 November 2012, 7pm
The Erotic Book Club
Reading King of the Badgers by Phillip Hesner

Saturday 24 2012, 2pm
Art Licks Tour

O C T O B E R 2012

Wednesday 3rd October 2012, 7.15pm
Publishing Forum: Reading Group at X Marks the Bökship
Reading The Electric Information Age Book. McLuhan / Agel / Fiore and the Experimental Paperback.

Saturday 6 October – 3 November 2012
Noam Chomsky quotes:
An exhibition of letterpress prints by Adam Burton

Thursday11 October 2012, 7pm
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club of short fiction and essays by women
Reading To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing

Wednesday 17th October 2012, 7.15pm
Publishing Forum Reading Group at Banner Repeater
Reading The Binder and The Server
Published by Triple Canopy

Friday 19 October 2012, 7 – 10pm
Launch of Shoppinghour Magazine: Authentic Human Issue
Performance by Penny Rimbaud

Thursday 25 October 2012, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club
Visit to The Wellcome Collection / Reading Crash by J G Ballard

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 7pm
Publishing Forum: Reading Group at X Marks the Bökship
Reading Words to be Looked at. Language in 1960s Art by Liz Kotz

S E P T E M B E R 2012

Artists’ Record Month

Publisher of the Month
Trestle Records

Thursday 6 September 2012
Launch of HI DE a new typeface family conceived by Giorgio Sadotti and designed by Fraser Muggeridge A TYPEFACE of 676 letterforms released in an edition of twenty-five
A specimen BOOK of 708 pages printed in an edition of fifty
A vinyl TEXTWORK of 4 words in an edition of four
A PRINT of the 25 ‘X’ variations in an edition of twenty-six

Thursday 13 September 2012
Visit from students at Fachklasse Grafik Luzern, Switzerland

Thursday 13 Septemeber 2012
‘I’ve Never Read Her’ Book Club of short fiction and essays by women
Reading The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín (A man!)

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 7.15pm at Banner Repeater
Publishing Forum Reading Group
Reading The Electric Information Age Book McLuhan / Agel / Fiore and the Experimental Paperback.

Sunday 16 September 2012, 8pm
Trestle Records Present: Tout
Live music at the Bökship

Friday 21 September 2012, 6.30 – 9.00pm
Launch of Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni
Published by Precinct
Talk by Adam Harper

Thursday 27 September, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club. Reading The Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy. E.L James

Friday 28 September, 8.30pm
Songs for Reading Into: Part 1, Jenny Moore

Juy and August 2012. Closed for Harvevsting

J U L Y 2 0 1 2

Thursday 26 July 2012
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Blood Red

Thursday 12 July 2012, 7pm
I've Never Read Her. Reading Dorothy Parker, The Little Hours

J U N E 2 0 1 2

Saturday 30 June 2012, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of Gradations of Time Over a Plane
By Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela.

Friday 29 June 2012, 7 – 9pm, talks at 8pm
Book presentation. One Fold Book: a project by AMBruno.

Thursday 28 June 2012
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Riders by Jilly Cooper

Wednesday 20th June 2012, 7.30-9pm
Reading group/publishing forum. Reading The Case for Books: Past, Present and Future
by Robert Darnton

Thursday 21 June 2012, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Disturber Magazine: Spatial Practice curated by Tatiana Leshkina

X Marks the Bökship, Berlin

Saturday 16 June 2012, 7pm
XARCHIVE reading room opening at Gerichtstrasse 52a, Berlin

Saturday 16 June 2012, 1pm
The Publishers Lunch Club at Hotel Paravent, Berlin

Thursday 14 June 2012, 7pm
I've never read her' Book Club. Reading The Old Man on the Stairs by Miranda July

Saturday 9 June 2012, 7 – 10pm
Launch of So Far. So Good.. So What? By Patrick Goddrad

Thursday 7 June 2012, 7 – 9pm
CSM Fine Art Present: Double Elephant

M A Y 2 0 1 2

Thursday 31 May 2012
The Erotic Book Club. Reading "Dream Story" by Arthur Schnitzler

Thursday 24 May 2012, 6 – 9pm
'PATHETIC ACADEMIC'
A celebration of books from artists and writers associated with The Centre for Useless Splendour and Kingston University Contemporary Art Research Centre.

Friday 18 May 2012, 7pm
eShelf. Exhibition of index of online publishers
eShelf is a collection of artists' online publishing activities and a series of events introducing digital publishing projects, initiatives and resources.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 7pm
Launch of F.R.DAVID "This is not new, of course". Edited by Will Holder.
Published by de Appel.

Friday 11th May 2012, 6 -9pm
Launch of Crossing the Line Propeller Island 9. Published by Propeller Island.

Thursday 10th May 2012, 7pm
'I've never read her'. Reading The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, a short story by Carson McCullers.

Wednesday 9 May 2012, 7pm
eShelf N – Z

Wednesday 2 May 2012, 7pm
eShelf A – M

Thursday 3 May 2012, 7- 9 pm
Launch of Forth & Back a new publication from The Everyday Press and Furnished Editions

A P R I L 2 0 1 2

Saturday 28 April 2012, 6 — 7.30pm
Launch of TERRAIN VAGUE حركات غير مكتملة PERSISTENT IMAGES. By Céline Condorell and Uriel Orlow.

Friday 27 April 2012, 7 – 9pm
Launch of SCHIZM MAGAZINE Issue 4. Edited by Emma Holmes.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club. 3rd Anniversary Writing Challenge: Confessionals

Monday 23 April 2012, 7 – 9pm
Reading Evening: STS, Lisa Schonberg & Bee Lavender
London Launch of Golden Brothers by STS. Published by Publication Studio

Friday the 13th April 2012, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of Flee Immediately Issue 01, A Manual. Edited by Renee Carmichael.
Self Published.

M A R C H 2 0 1 2

Publisher of the Month: LemonMelon

Friday 30th March 2012, 7 – 9pm
Evergreen. Readings by Márton Koppány, nick-e melville, David Berridge, S J Fowler, Lisa Jeschke, Claire Potter, and seekers of lice.

Thursday 29th March 2012, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club Reading: Guillaume Apollinaire's "Les Onze Mille Verges" (The Eleven Thousand Rods)

Thursday 22 March 2012, 7 - 9pm
An evening in Process and launch ofA Mock Up. Published by Wysing Arts Centre Escalator Visual Arts/Publish And Be Damned/Unrealised Projects.

Publish and be Damned 2012, ICA

Friday 16th March 2012, 6 – 9 pm
Filling in the blanks. LemonMelon
An Evening of Performances investgating possible ways of performing the blank book

Thursday 8 March 2012, 7pm
'I've never read her' Book Club: Two Women In One by Nawal El Saadawi

Saturday 3 March 2012, 7pm
Ladies of the Press* Talk with Paul Buck and Arnaud Desjardin

Thursday 1 March 2012, 7pm – 9pm
Book launch 'everything' by Marit Münzberg & 'was' by Tamarin Norwood

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 2

Publisher of the Month An Endless Supply

Saturday 25 February 2012, 6pm – 9pm
Launch of A Detour Around Infermental. Edited by George Clark, Dan Kidner and James Richards. Published by Focal Point Gallery.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club. Reading The Velderet by Cecilia Tan

Thursday 9 February 2012, 7pm
I've Never Read Her book club. Reading Katherine Mansfield

Thursday 2 February 2012, 7–9 pm
Launch of The Clifford Chadwick Clifford Collection by Lytle Shaw.
Published by An Endless Supply

J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 2

X Marks the Bökship in Karlsruhe, Germany

27 January – 9 April 2012
Video and Magazine Archive: Badischer Kunstverein, Germany
XARCHIVE / Recent publishing activities at X Marks the Bökship

Thursday 26th January 2012
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Lady Chatterley's Lover

Saturday 21 January 2012, 6 – 9 pm
Journal Launch: Rong—Wrong. Edited by Scott Joseph.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 7 -9pm
Launch of Uh Duh by Sarah Jacobs. Published by LemonMelon

D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 1

Saturday 3rd December 2011, 6 – 8 pm
Launch of five volumes from the art-writing-research series by Article Press. Edited by David Burrows. Talk by John Cussans entitled 'Tele-Marmalade'

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 7 – 9pm
Launch of Monaco Magazine, Issue 4. Edited by Katie Guggenheim.

Thursday 1st December 2011 / 2– 4pm
Paper Jam: Tour of Calverts Printing COOP

N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 1

Thursday 25 November 2011
The Erotic Book Club. Reading THE NECROPHILIAC by Gabrielle Wittkop.

Saturday 12 November 2011, 7 – 9pm
Wojciech Kosma "Monologue," performed by Sjoerd Dijk

Thursday 10 November 2011, 6 – 9pm
Launch of kuboaa, Issue 2
A progressive publication edited by Robert Carter, produced by AND Public

Saturday 5 November 2011, 2 – 5pm
Publication as Process workshop, by Uncanny Editions

O C T O B E R 2 0 1 1

Saturday 29 October 2011, 4 – 5pm
Artist in Conversation: Roland Brauchli

Thursday 27 October 2011
The Erotic Book Club. Reading The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir by Toni Bentley

Thursday 20 October 2011
Study trip to X Marks the Bökship

Friday 21 October 2011, 7 – 9pm
Launch of Constellation Piece by Ella Finer

15 October – 30 October 2011
Roland Brauchli Exhibition

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 1

Friday 30 September 2011, 7pm
Launch of Uncanny Magazine 3: Publication as Process. Published by Uncanny Editions.

Thursday the 29th September 2011
The Erotic Book Club. Reading House Of Holes by Nicholson Baker.

Saturday 24 September, 11am – 12.30pm
Publisher's Brunch

September - December 2011.
Writer in Residence
David Berridge/ VerySmallKitchen will be writer and reader in residence at X Marks the Bökship.

Thursday 8 September, 7pm
Launch of 100 things not worth repeating: on repetition by Marianne Holm Hansen. Published by Lemon Melon

Saturday 3 September 2011, 6 – 8pm
Launch of Rialto-Dolmio by Russell Walker. Published by Savoury Days/1994 Editions.

A U G U S T 2 0 1 1

Wednesday 24 August 2011, 7 – 9pm
Launch of SNIMKY by Dario Uterus. Published by Hato Press.

Friday 19 August 2011, 6pm
Film Screening. Confessional Tales and Political Ends. Chris Kraus.

Saturday 20 August 2011, 6pm
Film Screening. Feelings are shit. The real trick is to disappear.Chris Kraus.

J U L Y 2 0 11

Tuesday 26 July 2011, 7pm
Film Screening: Plenty 9: Bouvier and Prusakova
Marya Alford, USA, 2005, 16mm, colour, sound, 25 minutes

Wednesday 27 July 2011, 7pm
Launch of Heaven is Real: John Maus and the Truth of Pop by Adam Harper.
Published by Precinct

Thursday 28th July 2011
The Erotic Book Club. Reading The Best American Erotic Poems

Friday 29th July 2011, 6pm -7.30pm
Bloomberg Space. Clive Phillpot, Eleanor Vonne Brown and Arnaud Desjardin will discuss the past and future of Artist¹s publishing, Chaired by Sacha Craddock.

Saturday 30th July 2011, 11.00 – 5.00pm
One day book fair at Bloomberg Space.

Thursday 21 July 2011, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of A Circular Issue 1. Edited by Afonso Martins and Pedro Cid Proença.

New Bökship Edition
XALPHABET / 26 Xs by 26 Artists

Friday 22 July 2011, 6pm – 8pm
Launch of Shadowboxing Issue Four/Five by MA Curating Contemporary Art, RCA.

Saturday 23 July 2011, 1pm – 6pm
Launch / Lunch of Studio Cookbook by Ken Kirton. Published by Hato Press.

Saturday 16 July 2011, 2 – 5pm
Book Binding Workshop

Thursday 14 July 2011, 7pm
Talk: How to Publish Your Own Book
School of Everything at X Marks the Bökship

Tuesday 5 July 2011, 7pm
Towards a Physiological Novel
#8. ONEIRON (or how a dream machine works exactly)
Speaker: Mark Von Schlegell

Thursday 7 July 2011, 6pm
Launch of Touching Relating Dividing by Thomas Müller. Published by The Centre for Recent Drawing.

Saturday 9 July 2011, 6pm
Launch of Trip. London to Lisbon and back by Laura Braun. Published by Paper Tiger Books.

Wednesday 6 July 2011, 7pm
Performance as Publishing
South London Gallery

Sunday 3 July 2011, 4 – 8pm
Publisher of the Month: July / IRP

J U N E 2 0 1 1

Thursday 30 June 2011
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet

Wednesday 29 June 2011, 7pm
'Towards a Physiological Novel'
# 7. Title: Paul, you are neglecting your shoes.
Speaker: Paul Buck.

Saturday 25 June 2011, 7pm
Launch of Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy. Published by Autonomedia.

Friday 24 June 2011, 7pm
Artist Talk Lookingback@earth

Wednesday 15 June 2011, 7pm
'Towards a Physiological Novel'
# 6. We Blush to Say Many Things which we do not Blush to Write.
Speaker: Piyel Haldar.

Saturday 4 June 2011, 5 – 9pm
Film Screening. Comic Cartoons

Saturday 4 June 2011, Midday – 5pm
The Folding Group - Artist's Book Fair

M A Y 2 0 1 1

Thursday 26th May 2011
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Master Han's Daughter: Tales of Depraved NeoTokyo – Midori

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 7 -9pm
Launch of Aphrodite's Left Turn by Samuel Dowd.
A screenplay (published by FormContent) and reading of Scene 3

Friday 20 May 2011, 6 – 9pm
Opening of Nieves, London
With the launch of 3 new publications by Jürg Lehni & Alex Rich

Wednesday 18th May at 7pm
'Towards a Physiological Novel'
# 5. Mothercraft books and the physiology of reproduction.
Speaker: Jesse Olszynko-Gryn.

Friday 13th May, 7- 9.30pm
Publisher of the Month: Preston is my Paris
Launch of In a State by Adam Murray. Published by Preston is my Paris

Saturday14 May 2011, 2pm – 8pm
Re-portrait Yourself
Visual flow coordinated by Waldemar Pranckiewicz

Friday 6 May 2011, 7pm
Spoiler. Open Mic Reading Evening hosted by Ross Downes.

Thursday 5 May 2011, 3pm – 9pm
Please Respond
Textual interaction by Waldemar Pranckiewicz

Wednesday 4 May 2011, 7pm
'Towards a Physiological Novel'
# 4. Søren Kierkegaard on Trauma: The Concept of Anxiety as a Theory of Traumatic Time
Speaker: Isak Winkel Holm.

A P R I L 2 0 1 1

Publisher of the Month: The Coelacanth Press

Thursday 28th April 2011
The Erotic Book Club. 2nd Anniversary Writing Challenge.

Wednesday 20 April 2011
'Towards a Physiological Novel'
# 3. The Artistic Dérivative, or Some Things I Learned About Life and Labor from a Dead Hare
Speaker: Stevphen Shukaitis.

Sunday 17 April 2011 6pm
Screening: The Films of Sally Cruikshank. Presented by The Coelacanth Press

Thursday 14 April 2011,6.30pm
Exhibition and launch of Black Light By Roisin Dunne. Published by Ditto Press.

Wednesday 6 April 2011, Open 7pm
Towards a Physiological Novel'
# 2. Medieval Scandinavianism: Asger Jorn's search for Vandalist Aesthetics.
Speaker: Niels Henriksen

M A R C H 2 0 1 1

Publisher of the Month: AND Publishing

Thursday 31 March 2011
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Fan Fiction.

Friday 25 March 2011, 7pm
The Piracy Project at X Marks The Bökship
Talk. Pirate Books in Peru: A talk by Andrea Francke

Sunday 27 March 2011, 1– 6pm
Pirate Book Production Centre at the Bökship

Thursday 24 March 2011, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Exhibition. Extra Copies: Jason File and Tatiana Leshkina

Wednesday 23 March 2011, 7pm
'Towards a Physiological Novel'
# 1. Dissonance at the Threshold; or Interfering in Systems Thinking.
Speaker: Matt Clemments.

Saturday 12 March 2011, 5 – 7pm
Launch of Schizm Magazine Issue 2 Edited by Emma Holmes.

Friday 11 March 2011, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Alone, Desperate
and Going Nowhere by Paul Haworth. Published by True True True.

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 1

Opened X Marks the Bökship independent bookshop.

Friday 25th February, 2pm
Publishers Lunch

Thursday 24th February 2011
The Erotic Book Club Reading The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by JT Leroy

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 7 – 9pm
Launch of (now)(then)(___) by Nicole Bachmann, Una Knox, Jasiek Mischke, E. Park, Laure Prouvost. Launch of The Woodmill Limited Edition Print Portfolio.

Friday 18 February 2011, 7pm – 9pm
Launch of Modern Art in Everyday Life by Sara MacKillop. Published by Bedford Press

J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 1

Thursday 27 January 2011, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club Reading The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour and The Sexual Life of Catherine M by Catherine Millet

Friday 21 January 2011, 6pm – 9pm
Pa/per View Art Book Fair

Saturday 22 January 2011, 12 – 6pm
Pa/per View Art Book Fair
Body Drawings for Bookworms. Drawn by Waldemar Pranckiewcz

D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 0

N O V E M B E R  2 0 1 0

Thursday 25 November 2010
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Happiness by Denis Robert

Thursday 28 October 2010
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Emannuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan.

Friday 22nd October 2010
Launch of Return to Leptis Magna by Anna Barham.

7th – 13 October 2010 
Pop up shop at The Composing Rooms; 42 Theobalds Road, Bloomsbury, London

S E P T E M B E R  2 0 1 0

Thursday 30th September 2010
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Kondom's New Bondage Fairies Book 1

Wednesday 22 September 2010, 6.30 – 8.30pm
THE THE THINGS IS (FOR 3) by Giorgio Sadotti. Published by Milton Keynes Gallery 
Performance by Inda Yansané and Val Del Prete.

Thursday 26 August 2010
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

Friday 6 August 2010, 6 - 9 pm
British Folk by James Pearson-Howes.

J U L Y 2 0 1 0

Thursday 29 July 2010
The Erotic Book Club. Reading The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker

July 17 – 27 2010, Vernissage Friday 16 July 2010, 7pm
The Reading and Research Room took place at:
Pavillon am Milchhof, Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof e.V. Schwedter Straße 232 10435 Berlin

Friday 16 July 2010, 8pm
ARTISTS’ NEWSPAPERS TALK by Eleanor Vonne Brown

Wednesday 7 July 2010, 7pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 12: DRAWING FROM ARCHITECTURE with Guest Speaker Pablo Bronstein

J U N E  2 0 1 0

Thursday 24th June 2010
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Wednesday 23rd June 2010, 7pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 11: SOME THINGS I LIKE ABOUT MAKING BOOKS with guest speaker Sara MacKillop

Wednesday 9th June 2010, 7pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 10: APPROPRIATION with guest speaker Michalis Pichler

M A Y  2 0 1 0

Friday 28th May 2010, 7.30pm
Translation and Verbal Mutation
FormContent, 51–63 Ridley Road, London E8 2NP

Thursday 27 May 2010
Erotic Book Club First Birthday Writing Challenge

Friday 14 May 2010, 6-9pm
‘Beginnings and unreliable Translations’
A round table discussion between Nicolas de Oliveira (chair), Jeremy Millar and Eleanor Vonne Brown.

Wednesday 26 May 2010
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 9. SLIMVOLUME / THE GALLERY AS PUBLISHER with guest speaker Andrew Hunt

A P R I  L  2 0 1 0

Wednesday 28 April, 7pm – 8.30pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 8: ARTISTS‘ NEWSPAPERS. Guest speaker Eleanor Vonne Brown

Thursday 29th April 2010, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club. Reading The Story of O by Pauline Reage

Wednesday 14 April 2010, 7pm – 8.30pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE# 7: THE DEFINITION OF ARTISTIC ACTIVITY OCCURS, FIRST OF ALL, IN THE FIELD OF DISTRIBUTION.’ (Marcel Broodthaers.) Guest speaker Eva Weinmayr

Thursday 8th April, 2010 6 - 9pm
Launch of Monika, Issue 2

M A R C H  2 0 1 0

Wednesday 31 March 2010, 7pm – 8.30pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 6: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE MAGAZINE PAGE with guest speaker DAVID CAMPANY

Thursday 25 March 2010
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Pleasure Bound Edited by Alison Tyler

Friday 19 March 2010, 6 -9pm
Launch of The Book of Apertures. Published by Lazy Gramaphone Press.

Wednesday 17 March 2010, 7pm – 8.30pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 5: The COLOPHON (Documents and Facts), REPRESENTATIONS OF COLLECTIVE PRODUCTION with guest speaker WILL HOLDER.

Wednesday 3 March 2010, 7pm – 8.30pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE# 4: ART WRITING with guest speaker FIONA BANNER.

Thursday 4th March 2010
Book launch of Running Associations by Amy Feneck. Published by General Public.

F E B R U A R Y  2 0 1 0

11 February 2010
Translation and Verbal Mutation. Organised by Eleanor Vonne Brown.
Whitechapel Gallery, Word Play event.

Thursday 25th February 2010
The Erotic Book Club. Reading "Girls" by Nic Kelman

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 7pm – 8.30pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 3: BOOKS ON BOOKS with guest speaker Arnaud Desjardin.

J A N U A R Y  2 0 1 0

Thursday 28th January 2010, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club. Reading ‘Torture Garden’ by Octave Mirbeau.

Friday 22nd January 2010, 6 - 9pm
Artists Talk ‘Before Things Change’ by Seth Fluker

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 7pm – 8.30pm
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 1: THE ARCHIVE with guest speaker James Hoff from Primary Information.

D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 9

Saturday 12 December 2009, 6 - 9 pm
'A Conversation between Oliver Laric, Wojciech Kosma and Paul O'Kane'

N O VE M B E R 2 0 0 9

Saturday 28 November 2009, 6:30 – 9pm
Launch of Mono Issue #1: Ubiquitous Embodiment. Selected by Steve Bishop

Thursday 26 November 2009, 8pm
Erotic Book Club Reading: Memoirs of a Young Rakehell by Guillaume Apollinaire

Wednesday 25 November 2009
Launch of A Prior. Issue 19.

Friday 6 November 2009, 7pm
Donlon Books. Readers Archive with Will Hodgkinson

O C T O B E R 2 0 0 9

Friday 30 October 2009, 6.30 – 9.30pm
Launch of the SEX, MAGIC, UTOPIA, MONEY stanleypickergallery Public Lectures ON ART

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 9

Seth Fluker is artist in resident at the Bokship

Saturday 26 September 2009, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of Dan Graham's Rock Music Writings. Published by Primary Information.

Thursday 24 September 2009, 8pm
Erotic Book Club. Reading Macho Sluts by Pat Califia

Friday 18 September 2009, 6pm–9pm
Silk Handkerchiefs by Paul Haworth. Published by True, True, True. (performance by Alex Brenchley)

Sunday 6th of September 2009, 6pm
A Walk in the Park. A photographic essay of a year of walks in Victoria Park. By Mike Pitt.

A U G U S T 2 0 0 9

Arthur Swindells is Translator in residence at the Bökship. He will be translating Politique du rebelle, by Michel Onfray.

Wednesday 26 August 2009 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of LAGNIAPPE by Nick Santos-Pedro. Published by X Marks the Bök.

J U L Y 2 0 0 9

Nick Santos Pedro is Poet in Resident at the Bökship.

Friday 31st July 2009, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Don't Bother Issue 005. Edited by Adam Burton.

Thursday 30 July 2009, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Justine by the Marquis De Sade.

Saturday 25th – Sunday 26th July
X-Raydio at Port Eliot Literary Festival, Cornwall

Thursday 23 July 2009, 6 – 9pm
EDIT: Exhibition by MA Book Arts, Camberwell College of Art
24 July – 22 August 2009

J U N E 2 0 0 9

Jem Goulding is the current Poet in Residence at the Bökship.

Thursday 25 June 2009, 8pm
Erotic Bookclub Reading: Wetlands by Charlotte Roche

Saturday 20 June 2009, 6pm
Launch of Life Extreme by Eduardo Kac & Avital Ronell.
Published by Dis Voir.

Monday 8 June 2009, 7pm.
Poetry Might

Friday 5 June 2009, 7pm – 9pm
Launch of The Coelacanth Journal: Issue 3, The Moderns

Thursday 4 June 2009, 7pm
Donlon Books. Readers Archive with Phillip Hoare

M A Y 2 0 0 9

Thursday 28 May 2009, 8pm
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

Thursday 21 May 2009, 6.30 – 9.00pm
Launch of Vague Paper issue 6. s

10 May – 21 June 2009
Communication Breakdown, Eleanor Vonne Brown
X marks the Bökship is showing a selection of publications at the Nassauischer Kunstverein, in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Saturday 16 May 2009 6.30 – 9.00
Launch of Succulent Legume. Issue 1. Edited by Zoe Darling
and Cecilia Bonilla.

A P R I L 2 0 0 9

Kevin Clarke is poet in residence at the Bökship.

Thursday 30th April 2009
The Erotic Book Club. Reading Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus In Furs

Saturday 18 April 2009, 6.30 – 9pm
Kevin Clarke launches his Death Approaches Zine plus a screening of his short film
'Smoking while Hoovering Topless'

Sunday 5 April 2009, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of The Mock and other superstitions. Issue 2. Anecdotes as new theory

Wednesday 1 April 2009, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Future Fiction Cities of Oblivion and Love Hotel City

M A R C H 2 0 0 9

Thursday 26 March 2009, 6 – 9pm
Launch of Scenografi. Published by Nieves.

Wednesday 10 March 2009, 7pm
Poetry Might

Friday 6th March 2009, 6.30 – 8.30
Launch of The Foundations of Judo By Yves Klein
Translated and Typeset by Ian Whittlesea

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 9

Tania Leskina is artist in resident at the Bökship

J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 9

Marriane Morris is poet in resident at the Bökship.

Friday 29 January 2009
Launch of Novel, Issue 1. Edited
 by Matt Williams and Alun Rowlands.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 7pm
Poetry Might

D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 8

Saturday 13 December 2008
Launch of Savage Messiah Zine Issue 10 and demonstration by John Wild of buymyfingerprints.com

Wednesday 10 December 2008
Launch of The Coelacanth Journal: No. 2, Hysteria. Published
 by The Coelacanth Press.

Friday 5 December 2008
Launch of Wassinklundgren – Don't Smile Now..Save it for Later! Published By Wassinklundgren.

Thusday 4 December 2008
Opening Night of Donlon Books and X Marks the Bökship at Unit 3, 210 Cambridge Heath Road.

X Marks the Bökship' events programme was supported by Arts Council England between
October 2012 - April 2013.
September 2013 - March 2014.
September 2014 - December 2014.

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