Bookville 2004-2010
Bookville began in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK in 2004. I heard about big changes happening on High Bridge in relation to Waygood Gallery, which was moving out of town so that it could undertake a massive refurbishment. This building is now Baltic 39. Working in close collaboration with artist Maggie Tran, Bookville transformed an ex-hairdressing salon into a venue for book arts and performance, programming a solid 120 days of events, projects and making in relation to publishing from February to May 2005. Following on from this, we created the Publishathon, a two week publishing intensive at Hull Art Lab, in Hull and helped establish the Bart Store in 2006 (another regenerated site, this time in Kaatendrecht, Rotterdam). Other projects and workshops pertaining to creative practice, site regeneration and community emergence ensued - leading to the development of Coachwerks, which I opened in Brighton in 2008.
The below photos are all that remains of the Bookville archive. They are very low resolution by current standards and are not in chronological order. Instead, for those who were there, they can still trigger, albeit haphazardly, latent memories of that time. For those who are curious, the below selection might give some indication of the project’s flavour. Click any image to enter into lightbox view. Some of the images are slightly larger.
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